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Word: rottenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's finest collection of fancy waistcoats (all with buttons engraved with his initials), a collection rivaled only by the de la Baume-Pluvinel collection in Paris. One day lately Sir Walter with a fresh carnation and a new waistcoat from Savile Row took his usual constitutional along Rotten...

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

...Smith was a rotten Governor. I did not know it until I got into the governorship myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contemptible Liar! | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...existing funds are concerned, the University will doubtless continue to defend itself by rotten logic. It ought to avoid prolonging the embarassment of its position by asking that future gifts be made without restrictions. By refusing restricted gifts the University can prevent the recurrence of the difficulty. Only in this way can it eliminate the questionable practices so ineffectually camouflaged in the President's report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESTRICTED GIFTS | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Rotten apples used as a poultice is an old Lincolnshire remedy for sore eyes is still used in some villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Simples | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...contains many amusing lines and situations; but it is one of that kind makes the audience think that it would be on so much fun to go home and be whimsical and bohemian. So they are just as likely to go home, mess up the living room, drink some rotten gin, and make unbearable attempts at sprightly conversation. The next morning they regret their impulsive assininity. Such a picture is "Platinum Bloude"; it is more or less entertaining while it happens, but at the end there is the flat taste of near-success and the realization that it might have...

Author: By A. W. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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