Word: scum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's "over-commercialized" theatre, Mr. Rice raged: "There is not a dramatic critic in New York City who knows anything about the problems of acting and directing. You can call them all ticket grabbers. That's what they are? ticket grabbers . . . jaded . . . bored . . . illiterate . . . stupid . . . animal-like . . . scum of the earth...
Your patriotic stand against the Satanic scum that is insidiously boring from within, attempting to undermine our institutions, is worthy of American praise...
Rashly the Minister of Marine demanded written explanation of Admiral Becerqueira's refusal, received for answer seven pages of saltiest sea language comparing His Excellency the Minister of Marine to slimiest scum of the deep. For this audacity Admiral Becerqueira spent his days in jail, emerged swearing bluer than ever...
...there to be for dinner?-his answer was invariable: "At daylight; cold meat." His men trusted him, admired him at a distance; called him "that long-nosed b-r that beats the French." The admiration was not mutual. Wellington's frequently-expressed opinion of Tommy Atkins: "The scum of the earth, the mere scum of the earth. . . . The English soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. . . . The man who enlists into the British army is, in general, the most drunken and probably the worst man of the trade or profession to which he belongs...
...dealing wid de native scum...