Word: scum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack on Evolution, Dr. Straton said: "Evolution is based on purely mechanical forces. It does not consider personality. The scientists do not know how the world began. They can only attribute it to blind chance. They will tell you that there came a green scum between the sea and shore of a newly-born world and that one day in that scum there was a wiggle. And we are descended from that wiggle. That most humorous book of all the humorous books of this century. Mr. Well's 'Outline of History', is based entirely on this absurd belief...
...throat lair known (because of the scum that frequents it), as the Dust Heap, a stealer of women brings a supposedly half-breed female ward of a priest, under the transparent pretence that her guardian wants her. He turns her over to his French Canuck pal, who starts dragging her significantly up the stairs...
...Scum, scoundrel, brat, riff-raff!" called in a loud voice...
Cuffs, kicks and curses was the order of the day in the Chambre des Députés when Royalist Reputy Magne called canaille (Scum, scoundrel, brat, riffraff) in a loud voice, apparently at ex-Premier Painlevé, who was reading from a large book of records. M. Painlevé did not hear the serious imprecation hurled at him, but his friends insisted upon telling him about...
Commissioner Leach's scheme is just the old one of "passing the buck", poorly concealed. If the scum were skimmed from New York, it would of course fall upon the next gold mine--perhaps Boston or Philadelphia. And since New York is the richest mine of all, it would come slipping back as soon as the temporary vigilance relaxed. The onus cannot be shifted. If the police cannot police the city, then it becomes time for internal reformation; and if the present Commissioners cannot handle the situation, the burghers of New York will doubtless find it expedient to institute...