All 3 Uses of
graft
in
Arrowsmith
- He had interviewed senators; he had discovered graft in charity societies and even in prize-fights.†
Chpt 11 *
- Pickerbaugh called him a grafter, and the last time Pugh had been elected—it had been on a Reform Platform, though since that time the reform had been coaxed to behave itself and be practical—both Pugh and Pickerbaugh had denounced Jordan as a "malign force."†
Chpt 23
- The pastor of the Jonathan Edwards Church touched up a sermon about Sin in High Places by a reference to "one who, while like a Czar he pretends to be safeguarding the city from entirely imaginary dangers, yet winks at the secret vice rampant in hidden places; who allies himself with the forces of graft and evil and the thugs who batten on honest but deluded Labor; one who cannot arise, a manly man among men, and say, 'I have a clean heart and clean hands.'†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(graft as in: skin graft) to artificially join two things; or the smaller of the items joined; or the location of the joining