Word: scum
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...educated man does not enter politics; the corruption he sees discourages him even as he casts his ballot. This condition of civic life is no recent development. Aristophanes wrote: "Our sterling townsmen, nobly born and nobly bred,...these we treat with scorn; worthless sons of worthless fathers, yellow scum, these for every task we, choose...
...shirts and colorful ties are at once neat and attractive. But by their hats ye shall know them. Faded, dirty, greasy hats; hats discouraged and dissolute, torn, broken, bent, crushed, tipsy; hats that have seen life and have not come back unstained; hats that have been curious about the scum of mankind only to have scum spattered upon them; hats that have lost their ideals, that no longer dream dreams or see visions; hats that have had the world too much with them--Harvard students wear them. Alas! these hats left in the Crimson Building will not be with...
...patriotism, in that state of martial stupefaction, which believes that all American soldiers were stainless Sir Galahads? Indeed, what sort of patriotism is it that insists that the public shall go on thinking that millions of Americans liked crawling before "superiors", being humiliated, hounded, and beaten up by the scum of the M. P. force, and all the rest of the hell of war and its accompaniments...
...have been in any way molested, are working steadily at top speed. True, the laborers and employees themselves now, have a voice in the management of their factories, but that is not revolution; it is progress. Italy, in other words, far from turning "bolshevik," has finally thrown off the scum of unrest brought to the surface by the boiling heat of war, and has settled back again to a normal period of living and working...
...threshold of reform. Would it not be better to revert to the old maxim, "Nothing is new, nothing is true, and nothing matters?" and like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, lure with sweet music the rats and the vermin from their haunts, to be drowned in the scum of the Charles...