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Word: rottenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders had carefully picked a large audience from all over Iowa to hear his address. Possible hecklers had been weeded out. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, was to stage a protest parade by his discontented followers. Washington earlier in the week had heard ugly stones of "half a dozen rotten eggs" to be apportioned to each marcher but both Democrats and Republicans insisted the President would be subjected to no discourtesy. Some G. 0. P. strategists thought a Hoover speech in Republican Iowa would be wasted effort but last week the state-wide straw poll of the Des Moines Register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Opener | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...Well, when I was elected I found the Governor's Mansion in such rotten shape I had to tear it down and rebuild. It started a hell of a row. When I'm elected President I don't want to have to rebuild the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Incredible Kingfish | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...world that I don't like it. To show the world that 7 object to it. Do ya think that I wanna die? Ya think that I ain't a human being? Ya think I don't wanna live? Ya think it's nice to wait in that rotten cell, day after day. week after week, month after month, and see men die, one after another, see lights go dim. hear the whine of that motor, and wait and wait and wait, and die a million times every minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...went duffle bags & data. The two men were alone in a steaming, fever-soaked jungle where only the birds and the tops of the writhing vines saw the sun. Thomas Walsh died in his friend's arms and was buried in a narrow trench scooped out of the rotten ground. Harold Foard was picked up by Indians and carried on to Monzon, Peru. The letter he carried said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ph.D. | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...wish to state how shocked I am to see so many people of both sexes turn up in our wonderful Rotten Row to do their riding in costumes which are not only a disgrace to the royal park but to the country. ... I haven't heard the word 'desecration' used yet, but that's actually what I think it is. There should be regulation to stop it. The next thing we'll see will be bathing costumes and shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Desecration! | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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