Word: filth
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...toothed and hoary-headed ape, carried at first into notice on the shoulder of Carlyle, and who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding and fouling: coryphaeus or choragus of his Bulgarian tribe of autocoprophagous baboons, who make the filth they feed on. . . ." Says our own Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." And from the famed nursery tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Jonathan Swift...
...André Tardieu is corruption personified. He is the typical professional patriot that is to be found in every country. Furthermore, Tardieu endangers the peace of France both at home and abroad. A certain French politician has said of him that he resembles a pig in his enjoyment of filth and dirt, and his very name lends itself to a play on words: 'Tardieu,' or 'dieu des tares,' meaning 'god of imperfections.' One of the deputies in the Chamber said to him publicly, 'There are certain individuals whose dishonesty is universally recognized...
...contrast to the brilliant life of the planter was the existence of the Negro slaves. Poverty and filth were their constant lot, ignorance, their heritage. Nothing was done for their comfort. Fear that family ties might develop too strongly caused the planters to separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives...
...concrete arguments for censorship. He would ask for a secret legislative session, unheard-of since the Senate moved from Philadelphia to Washington. If he did not get it, he would let the Senate blush in public at what he was determined to read to them as samples of "foreign filth...
...show, Boston politicians with only the good of the city in mind own and manage a theatre where only good, clean acts are presented. It is a theatre to which you may take your Mother, your wife, or your child. There censorship has erected a screen against all filth but tobacco, and has closed all suggestive displays but the stage door. It is located near Scollay Square. It is known as the "Old Howard...