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Word: swinishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Embree added that to be a judge of good whiskey "implies good taste all along the line." Said he: "An educated man-a judge of good whiskey-will realize the abysmal gap between swinish drunkenness and that mellowness and expansion of personality which the wise men of the ages have appreciated as the gift of the grape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Triple Ideal | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative of a student's sick return from premedical school to the farm of his swinish father and mother. In an atmosphere supercharged with nervous prostration, sadism, fornication, drunkenness, adultery and lack of funds the young student, at his mother's instigation poisons his father. Maternal incest and suicide are thereafter overwhelmingly indicated, but Author Jeffers finally prescribes his hero's self-sacrificial surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: California Hybrid | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis, the swinish profiteer and his fat mistresses. He escaped Nazi concentration camps by going to the U. S. in 1932 to teach at the Art Students' League. Nazis did the best they could by burning his books, persistently referring to him as a Jew. Actually George Grosz is as "Aryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young & Grosz | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

approach the degree of swinish ignorance displayed by your commentator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

This year's most significant Nazi propaganda trial abruptly backfired last week. For some months the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment has been telling Germany what a nest of swinish rascals and swindlers the Prussian Ministry of Public Welfare was before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. Under the shrieking headline "HOW PUBLIC MONEY WAS SQUANDERED!" Dr. Heinrich Hirtsiefer, ousted Public Welfare Minister, was denounced for indulging in an orgy of buying honorary degrees for himself from German universities and treating his colleagues shamelessly to beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unaccountable Backfire | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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