Word: miasma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other traditional editorial blasts were levelled against University Hall, for supporting a miasma of red tape, and against those who 1) didn't participate in Union activities, and 2) didn't turn out for the various football rallies...
Land of Romance. As the transport drew near the land, G.I.s swarmed to the rail, eyes misty with Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...
...atmosphere in the Drones' Club was thickly postprandial, a pleasant miasma of tobacco smoke, port, fizz water splashing into amber whiskey, just as Old Plum-Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse to you-had often described...
...Laura Jay Wurts, daughter of Alexander Jay Wurts, Carnegie Tech professor and Westinghouse inventor, and great-great-great granddaughter of John Jay (1745-1829), the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Wiped out in the Bull Market Crash and "fed up to the chin with the Depression and the miasma that was enveloping Washington," Galloper Chandler in 1931 took his wife and two small daughters and galloped off to Europe. A student of Naziism since 1927, he was received ten years later at Nuremberg by the most successful man in the world...