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...well be said of Dickens that he usually had some laudable purpose in his novels -calling attention to practices that needed correction while Mark Twain wrote to make us laugh; but the rot . . . you dish out to describe Nina and all the other participites criminis in Gary's novel is unbelievable in the annals of decent literature, especially to a Southerner; we handle such affairs with a shotgun...
...years. Bricker's popularity has waned since his vice-presidential bid. In the past, the Senator has won easily with old fashioned speeches on the virtues of Mother, Home and Ohio State University. This time, he is campaigning furiously, concentrating his considerable oratorical powers on the "disintegration and dry rot" of the Truman administration. Bricker has powerful organizational backing, especially from the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) machine led by Taft's Convention cheerleader, Rep. George Bender. The Cuyahoga boys delivered 150,000 volunteer workers to the Taft Senatorial campaign two years...
...Angeles Times I just read a note from A.P. regarding your approval of Adlai Stevenson for President of these United States, for "intellectual exertion and faith in the electorate's judgement." Does this mean that you also accept Col. Avery and what is left of what Kelly Nash rot? Do you also accept Wilson Wyatt for his utter failure in his management of the Lustron Corp. where millions of tax money was wasted? . . . Do you join the A.D.A. government by pink-minded men? Harry Truman gave his shoes to Adlai but refuses to take his own feet out. He claims...
...teach it to others. He distributes good and bad grades with the same lack of discernment. Since nothing resembles anything at home, the cooking seems indigestible, the beds uncomfortable, the trains not on time, the civil servants unconscientious . . . The best local wines inspire distrust in him. The worst of rot-guts fills him with joy if it reminds him of what he drinks at home...
...brilliant and exhilarating after-dinner speaker. ("Winston and I are the two best speakers in England!") On his 70th birthday, he announced that all his exhibitionisms to date were merely "the overture" to what he intended to be "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land...