Word: rotted
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YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and ere they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...
YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and are they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...
...fiction of the number as a whole is best characterized, to quote Professor Wendell, as 'well-meaning and thoroughly amiable rot.' Under this classification, the first of the 'Two Sketches' is preeminent. The second is not bad, until one comes to the last paragraph. Up to this point there is a change of its being good but the effect is entirely thrown away out of the hasty and unartistic ending. The same fault is to be found with, 'A Disgrace to His Profession'; the last sentence is too tame but the rest of the story is good. The mucker-talk...
...consequence. We "grind up for the semis" and by means of "guff" and "gall" we "skin through." This really is entertaining but hardly elevating. But where shall we stop? Shall it be when the instructor says "Doncherknow?" or when we meet a friend who declares that "this is all rot...
...questionable dialect of Romany. It is true, as the writer claims, that the use of slang at Harvard is almost universal. To illustrate. Let us drop from the college vocabulary that long list of slang words and phrases beginning with the ubiquitous "chestnut" and ending with the non-committal "rot" and we at once appreciate the sphere which slang has come to assume in Harvard life. Our conversation would henceforth lose its elegance, its pungency, its accuracy. Yes, slang is prevalent at Harvard. It is in the class-room, the dormitory, on the field. You hear it on the river...