Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the. . . ." Horrified, a studio employe grabbed the phonograph arm, moved it back a notch or two. Promptly into the same groove went the voice of Harold Ickes: "Moe Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt -one. . . ." Although WXYZ immediately aired an explanation, some people in Detroit were convinced that Secretary Ickes stuttered...
...York's old Samuel Seabury, pompous, churchly lawyer. Willkie welcome: "I consider Judge Seabury one of the most distinguished men in the country in cleaning up corrupt political machines in our big cities...
...when Caesar turned down the crown, reluctance only teased and whetted those who offered it. They became insistent. He had reservations. He refused to build a party which would obey the Army. He refused to consider forming a party which would merely be a combination of the old corrupt parties; that, he said, would be as futile as "the taking away of the partitions and the paper doors between the rooms of a Japanese house." Finally he reluctantly agreed to resign the Presidency of the Privy Council to form a new party providing the old ones dissolved...
Chinese legend declares that Chin P'ing Mei (Metal Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin...
...Harvard University will be pacing Bertrand Russell in a position to influence the youth of Greater Boston and corrupt their morals if it allows the British philosopher to become a lecturer on its staff next September," it was charged at yesterday's City Council meeting...