Word: scum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wednesday's edition of the CRIMSON there appeared a communication literally effervescing with a most vaporous chauvinism. The gentleman displays a lively merriment over the treatment given the Reds rounded up by the Government. To him these creatures are a "collection of vermin," a "mass of scum," and, according to him, "it is not far wrong to say that the greater their anguish the greater the pleasure of all real Americans." But we must halt and reflect. Whom does he men by Americans? I feel certain that a large number who proudly bear that name and say "Civis Americanus...
...notable collection of vermin at Deer Island is a surpassingly delightful spectacle, both to the eye and to the mind. It is pleasant to know that this mass of scum no longer infects our social and political institutions with its deadly poison. No doubt there is considerable "wailing and gnashing of teeth," among these apostles of chaos as they turn their eyes westward to behold for the last time their "Paradise Lost," but it is not far wrong to say that the greater their anguish the greater the pleasure to all real Americans. They have made their bed; let them...