Word: putrid
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...signal they let fly, aiming not at the players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their clergyman and sang...
...Putrid Soul...
Your bigoted, ignorant, putrid soul...
...putrid beyond precedent...
...dealer in "putrid books for the putrid minded" is precisely the same in the eyes of Mr. Sterling as a dealer who sells typhus-filled milk. Both are to be held responsible. There are tea-tasters and there were wine-tasters; every book seller must now become his own book taster. A round sum might induce a poetaster to prostitute his art in the service of Boston. When it was suggested that some booksellers might find difficulty in keeping peace with the thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute...