Word: misbegotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot, Dr. Gentian nurses a nice insanity to be King of the Floridas, while the passion of his daughter is to be a queen, preferably piratical, with the misbegotten brute who appeals to her inherited taste for coarse-grained erotics. When the hero, young Andrew Beard of New York, arrives on business for his rich father, he is snaffled between plan and counterplan of father and daughter, escaping not without scars on heart and body. In the distances are heard the splashing of tea-chests in Boston harbor, the rattle of musketry at Lexington...
Here lies Ooo-Rah, misbegotten child of Wild and Foolish Frenzy, conceived in playfulness, nourished in jest, and brought forth still-born before an expectant world. Bred to thunder forth the fame of wounded heroes stricken on the field of glory, poor Ooo-Rah never wheezed a note. No single "Ooo" nor yet a "Rah" did Ooo-Rah bellow out in signal of a lusty birth. One long protracted hush proclaimed before an anxious multitude that Ooo-Rah's birth was also Ooo-Rah's death. So let him lie and rest in everlasting peace. And may this simple tribute...
Perhaps it may not always be possible to avoid such obloquy. Consider the case of Gaston B. Means, summoned to testify before the Senate Committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty (see Page 2). Detectives, like diplomats, are hardened to publicity. Mr. Means may have pictured to himself the photographs of misbegotten individuals appearing in the Daily News, Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, or other kindred papers. The poor unfortunates had tried to hide their faces from the camera. As result their portraits were printed with such remarks as "the alleged - shamedly covering his face" or "the notorious - cowering before the camera...
...compete where no end is served and no result achieved; we sweat over unloved tasks and neglect the true business of life; we erect and execute useless schemes, multiplying the worries of life, cluttering our days with rubbish, blasting Leisure and wasting our strength on this false and misbegotten ideal of "College Spirit." Columbia "Varsity...