Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Yard, besides being a venerable area, a blessed couple of acres, owns that peculiar charm which belongs to things and institutions which have never known the labelling of a surveying committee, a place with its own ancient and particular name. Rough earthy Anglo-Saxon names, like the "Yard," "Rotten Row," Cape Cod," have an indigenous correctness which latinic titles ("Esplanade," "Boulevard" etc) can never claim, especially when transported to foreign soil...
...Parliamentary-Democratic system must be fought!'' he roared in a speech which he compelled every German radio station to broadcast. "We want a break with what a rotten brand of Democracy has produced, and realize that all that is great can be created only by the strength of individual personality and that all that is to be preserved must be entrusted again to ability and individual personality...
...into sentimental softies. What God couldn't supply George came through with. God furnished a rainbow and a baby with the croup, and George brought forth situations and ejaculations equal to the reformation of the most abandoned reprobates; between them they turned the trick. Blanco and Feemy lost that rotten feeling, and as the curtain fell their wings began to sprout. God was probably pleased; Shaw certainly was; and the audiences who witness the Stagers' production of "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet" at the Peabody Play house this week get a whale of a kick...
Boxing impressarios will doubtless take full advantage of the publicity which attends a popular tragedy. And the monetary rewards will be great. But in the eyes of any man capable of the most elementary reason, the pugilistic racket is at the lowest point of a rotten career...
Later in the week New York's lumbering Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., pursuing his demands for an investigation of all companies that failed subsequent to R. F. C. support, asked for a probe of the Union Indemnity situation. Declaring it "a rotten mess that should and must have full publicity," Congressman Fish also demanded the resignation of President Hecht as chairman of the New Orleans R. F. C. advisory committee. Rudolf Hecht, he charged, had known all along that Union Indemnity was tottering, and as a director he had seen to it that part...