Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automatic shotguns, live decoys and baiting in fields. As Dr. Pearson might like some proof of what happens to ducks in Arkansas let him read the September issue of Field & Stream. Nash Buckingham writing about what he has actually seen states that 40,000 crippled and rotten ducks were found in a 450-acre field. These are the places where a little law enforcement would be useful. Can't blame the drought for such slaughter, only inhuman beings could...
...what my father said or did at the dock when confronted with the question of what I was up to but in any case it must have been greatly magnified by gossip-hunters, but I only wish that my parent would desist in future from giving rise to such rotten and unhelpful publicity...
...half years is long enough to forget the look of anyone, even George V. Up to his illness in 1928, riders in London's famed Rotten Row used to recognize His Majesty every morning and doff their hats, he doffing in return. Last week the King rode in Rotten Row for the first time since his illness, rode almost unrecognized by smart Rotten Rowers. Only six hats came off to His Majesty, much to his amusement, his relief. In the old days he had to ride down Rotten Row with his hat-arm working like a semaphore...
...Rotten Apples secreted in boxes...
...They ignored the fact that I had just as many he-man friends who would be glad to take the bat for me. The grape-fruit throwing episode, for example, has been distorted completely out of proportion, and soon I will be receiving clippings from the coast about rotten eggs and heaven knows what. It is that kind of publicity that I do not like, while the crowds at the stage door are pleasant...