Word: putrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist lawyer after Mussolini's downfall, much honored for his anti-Fascist record. It was he who acted as defense counsel for the journalist who first published the allegation that Wilma Montesi had been murdered. At that time Giuseppe Sotgiu indignantly declaimed: "This Montesi case stigmatizes a whole putrid and corrupted society, a privileged class which is perverse and needs replacing by a healthy workers' society...
...possible explanation of the putrid affair," wrote Parker, "is that Signer Carbo ... saw that the Keed not only was getting balky but also was slipping rapidly, and, to keep control of the title, arranged with Blinky -to pass it along to Saxton. Gavilan apparently was suspicious from the start...
...welcome. But Brando, a sullen kid who went everywhere in blue jeans and a soiled T shirt, stubbornly resisted the town's professional charm. He snorted at the "funnies in satin Cadillacs" and told them precisely, in Miltonic periods of incomprehensible jive talk, what to do with their "putrid glamour." He wanted to be left strictly alone, he snarled, and as for that "cultural boneyard" called Hollywood: "The only reason I'm here is because I don't yet have the moral strength to turn down the money...
...Author Mickey (Kiss Me, Deadly) Spillane snarled that Hollywood is "too warm in the winter," most of its movies "terrible" and most of its writers "hacks, pure hacks." As for the film version of his own I, the Jury: "I ... walked out after the first 15 minutes. It was putrid...
Husband Carlyle was made of quite different stuff. His description of his native capital, Edinburgh, more or less expressed his views on life and people generally: "Putrid, scandalous, decadent, hypocritical." While his wife lay stunned by headaches, he groaned and paced the floor in an ecstasy of dyspepsia. "None can say how bilious I am and am like to be," he chanted triumphantly. When somebody suggested that "the first essential was the happiness of the people," Carlyle went half mad with rage and was found bellowing: "Happiness! Happiness! the fools ought to be chained...