Word: venal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conscience. Wrote Judge Knox: "In my judgment, however, Levy, in mind, heart and action, was venal and corrupt. . . . By virtue of the statute of limitations, he cannot here be prosecuted, but he can and will be disciplined. The discipline to be administered will be his disbarment from further practice before this court...
...would suddenly break the tedium of a march by challenging his companions to outjump him. He liked to dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...
...Vote-hungry, it lavished money on farmers. Economy-minded (if not economy-willed), it pared the Relief outlay, tightened the rules, canceled projects it considered frittering. Stubborn, self-assertive, it would have taken away the President's monetary powers had he not been able to barter with enough venal Silver Senators. Weary of experiment, it harnessed TVA. But all these anti-Roosevelt actions were a gentle prelude to what came last week...
...Empire was said to be ready to declare "outlawed"the Chinese Generalis simo, famed Chiang Kaishek, who mean while last week himself held a supreme Chinese conference on strategy. To replace "Outlaw Chiang," the Japanese Government proposed to set up a new central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor...
...many an aficionado, the great days of bullfighting had already gone over the horizon with Joselito and Belmonte, long before the civil war closed most of the bull rings. To observers with long memories and high standards, bullfighting had become decadent: its matadors were virtuosos, its backers venal, its public vulgar. Against this modern (1934) background of decadence Joseph Peyre sets his Prix Goncourt prize-winning novel of bullfighting Madrid...