Word: fetid
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...Royal, Neb., one W. L. Seaman carried a package into a store. Here he unveiled two gloomy and fetid objects, a pair of shoes, which he handed to the man of the shop, saying: "Fix these. Half-soled I want them." Unabashed, in response to scornful comments ill-disguised as polite curiosity, W. L. Seaman admitted that his shoes had never been repaired before; that they were 25 years...
Dentist Lubliner has been peering into mouths, sometimes fetid ones, for 17 years and has seen many a case of pyorrhea. But, like other dentists, he has not known the cause. Nor does he know yet, although, he said last week, he has developed a treatment which has seemed to cure more than 200 cases. Just what the scientific basis of his treatment is he planned to tell first to the Clinical Society of Unity Hospital, Brooklyn, where he is the attending dentist...
...present the goal-post gladiators are resting amid a fetid odor of five-cent Havanas. The matches, the spitoons, and all the accessories for a nicotine festival are at hand. All that is needed is the shipment of Corona Belvederes...
...mourners knew that the cancerous men and women there, almost 100, were getting the devoted care of the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Rose of Lima. They could picture the white-clad sisters wiping away the fetid pus from cancerous lesions, applying cool unguents, making the patients comfortable, even injecting a merciful dose of morphine...
...wrong flat, and in that glance he saw the letter on the varnished table. He read it and went into his room and shut the door. Pretty soon there was a new smell in the flat, the smell of gas, and then, a long while later, another smell still, fetid and dark, a breath from underground. The girl did not come back. Nobody came-for ten days...