Word: venal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PROMISE ME-Lee Tracy as a venal and jolly young shyster...
...After serving three consecutive terms in Congress, he was defeated last November by Democrat John W. Boehne. And last week he was arrested at Evansville, Ind., charged with having accepted $750 from two relatives of one Gresham Ayer in return for recommending Ayer to be a rural mail carrier.* Venal Lame Duck Rowbottom refused to say anything about the case when he posted $10,000 bond and was released pending organization of a Federal Grand Jury...
...told the judge that Lena "stayed out late." The judge, Magistrate Leo Healy, had forthwith sentenced Lena to one year in Bedford Reformatory. She had been kept there six months overtime and might have been there still but for the discoveries about other Bedford commitments-"frame-ups" by venal members of the police vice squad-which have lately added fresh disgrace to New York City's corruption-riddled judiciary (TIME...
...Rongus, a young Jew who had been sold into slavery by a mercenary uncle. Too high-spirited for his own health, Rongus defied a Roman officer and was about to be tortured to death when crafty Barzor happened along, disguised as an Arab trader, and bought Rongus from a venal overseer...