Word: putrid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dealer in "putrid books for the putrid minded" is precisely the same in the eyes of Mr. Sterling as a dealer who sells typhus-filled milk. Both are to be held responsible. There are tea-tasters and there were wine-tasters; every book seller must now become his own book taster. A round sum might induce a poetaster to prostitute his art in the service of Boston. When it was suggested that some booksellers might find difficulty in keeping peace with the thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute...
...Scripps-Howard papers claimed to have won additional readers through their handling of the Snyder-Gray murder, and the Hearst papers by their treatment of the Peaches Browning case. Nine-tenths of the putrid detail and the revolting accounts of the Snyder-Gray murder and the overtures of the amorous Browning ought never to have been put in public print...
...must abandon the great phrase of Liberty," said Dictator Mussolini years ago, and added (TIME, Jan. 31), "Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quickly turn around to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty...
...Charter of Labor, promulgated last week on the "Putrid Liberty" hypothesis, lays down the following general principles which will be elaborated by legislation into a society system...
...Fascismo throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quietly turn around to step once more, over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty...