Word: offalness
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...months ago, had been seized by her husband's retainers, shut up in solitude. With the assistance of the Russian police, roused to investigate the Persian's house, a door was forced and the inner compound entered. At a stake set up in a pool of muddy offal was found, chained like a dog, the merchant's feminist wife. Rescued, nursed, she hovered between death and recovery...
...potash people mean potassium, a, metal absolutely essential to plant life.* When drained from the soil potassium (as one of its salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left by the camel. The War refugee, returned to his Flanders or Vosges farm, is not insensible to the value of the bodies rotting helterskelter across his pitted acres. AH these are organic manures useful...
Last week, it was the turn of New York City to be reprimanded. In 1917, one of that city's garbage-reduction plants was destroyed. A special permit was granted by the War Department to dump garbage at sea. Great scows heaped with offal are towed out of New York Harbor, out beyond Sandy Hook, to a point 14 miles from the coast of Long Island and 22 miles from New Jersey. There the offal is consigned to Father Neptune...
...appears that Father Neptune, scorning the tribute, casts it back upon the shores of New Jersey. And the Governor of New Jersey, equally scornful and twice as indignant, proclaimed to the War Department that offal had destroyed the beaches of his resorts, polluting their waters and making them unsanitary. He suggested that the dumping be farther at sea. But already the offal barges must travel 42 miles to their dumping ground and are able to make but one trip in 24 hours; they cannot go farther and still accommodate the existing volume of their traffic...
Dwight Filley Davis, Acting Secretary of War, wrote to the Mayor of New York City, demanded that the city hasten its construction of planned incineration plants so that it may cease to trouble the great sea - and New Jersey-with its offal...