Word: putrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...package," stuck by his demands for revision in union work rules (TIME, Oct. 12). United Steelworkers Union President David McDonald, who had walked out of a previous session, declared that the package really contained only 10.2,? refused even to discuss changes in the work rules, tagged the whole business "putrid...
Anybody who has ever collected star fish well knows how an interesting object can in a few days turn into a wad of putrid decay; this latest addition to the literature of the down-and-out is a sign that we have a literary star fish on our hands that must be buried, and quickly...
...Sweet Smell of Success reeks of the putrid kingdom bounded on all four sides by Broadway and ruled by the powerful typewriter of J.J. Hunsecker, columnist for the New York Globe. It is the story of sleazy press agent Sidney Falco's ruthless attempt to follow his nose, which he doesn't hesitate to use in his dealings with J.J. It is also the story of J.J.'s equally ruthless attempts to prevent the marriage of his neurotic sister Suzy with a straight arrow guitarist, Steve Dallas, who has "integrity--acute, like indigestion...
...black pots of your desperation, what a witches' brew you've brewed with your story. Nobody could have supposed that the campaign of a putrid peach like Georgia's Talmadge held any interest for you halfway through the fall of '56 - his election is not even an issue. Has the prowess of the real Democrats driven you so far as to drag Mr. Stevenson through...
When Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke sued Confidential magazine for $3,000,000 for libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence...