Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Month ago sailors from a German training ship were pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes while goosestepping down Havana's fashionable Prado...
Practically applied in Danger Signal, the Adler-Bottome theory cross-fertilizes the problem novel and the detective story. In a bloodless climax the heroine psychologist (a Czech lecturing in London) extracts inferiority complexes and egocentricities like a dentist tweaking out a rotten tooth. Author Bottome patently exaggerates the omniscience of the psychologist, the tractability of her patients, shows that a novel about psychology and a good psychological novel are by no means the same thing...
...only physical exercise he ever took. > In Bourg, France, where van Paassen lived for a time, he stopped to chat with a gravedigger, said he was on his way to Paris to write political notes on Laval. From the bottom of a slimy pit, tossing up half-rotten skulls to make room for a new corpse, the gravedigger shook his head and said: "A dirty job, la politique, Monsieur Pierre, a very foul business...
...does it mean minor legislation on bankruptcy and finance which would only make it more convenient for a railroad to pass from one receiver to the next. Nor, above all, does it mean the billion-dollar rehabilitation loan by the government which would preserve and subsidize the present rotten and aged structure...
...colonies, as Franklin witnessed it in London, where as a colonial agent he fought the Stamp Act, worked desperately for a reconciliation, appeared before Parliament to be baited by stupid and arrogant Tories, and was finally harried out of the country, cursing the "extreme corruption . . . in this rotten old state...