Word: putridity
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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...
Janet Flockhart had explored the woods near her home trying to track down a putrid smell that had long bothered her family. She eventually found the source-a decaying, fly-covered pile of garbage on the banks of Sims Bayou. Now, she said, she knew why fish had never been able to live in the bayou...
...work of two Elis named Kochler and Voulgaris, who seem to be solely responsible for putting their magazine several notches above other college funny papers, including the Lampoon. The rest of this issue consists of some involved and mostly unfunny stories, all based on ancient gimmicks, a pot of putrid he-she jokes admittedly culled from the 1920-1921 editions of the Record, and the phrase "'53 Skidoo" repeated six times throughout...
...though in mourning, flee distraught, hiding in the cracks in the soil; the Saprini,* of polished ebony which mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom one wears a fawn-colored tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their attire...
...every part of the city. Some of the money will be spent on the steaming port of Guayaquil (pop. 170,000), which shares most of the water troubles that plague the capital. Guayaquil will get a system of artesian wells to supplement the present source of supply, the stinking, putrid Guayas River. Eventual goal for capital and port: plenty of water to drink, a bath a day for everyone...