Word: putrid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mudd volunteered his services. Day & night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead...
...early days as Premier: "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!" (TIME...
...thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because of his unwelcome interest in some of the more putrid corners of that great city. (No criticism of Cleveland-it does not differ from other places of comparable population in respect to the criminal element.) What Mr. Moley and his associates found was incorporated in a famous report that proved to be one of the most complete and accurate reports...
...course, inevitable that somewhere, some time, a radio announcer should be sentenced for crimes against football, but the atrocity when it did come was particularly offensive. It was the application of the term "putrid" to Barry Wood, Harvard captain and quarterback in the Dartmouth game. The banishment of Ted Husing, from Harvard sports as a result was deserved and the radio announcer's explanation of his trespass on good taste merely adds to his culpability...
Radio announcer of that game for Columbia Broadcasting Co. was staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters of protest. Other listeners thought it a particularly flagrant example of two failings common among sports announcers -using words without knowing what they mean, criticizing instead of reporting. Harvard's Athletic Director William Bingham wrote to President William Paley of Columbia Broadcasting Co. to say that Announcer Husing might...