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Word: putridity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

FASCISM HAS ALREADY STEPPED, AND, IF NEED BE, WILL . . . STEP ONCE MORE, OVER THE MORE OR LESS PUTRID BODY OF THE GODDESS LIBERTY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA,BULGARIA: Black Farinacci | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Blasphemous Play | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...Putrid Soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Your bigoted, ignorant, putrid soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...putrid beyond precedent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Keynotes | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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