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Life with Father. "Don't you let them get you down," urged a col lege friend, after "Putrid" Woollcott (also known as "Slimer") had been tossed into the campus fountain for the ump teenth time. "You're going to be a greater [Samuel] Johnson." Young Woollcott agreed - though there is no evidence that he ever had the slightest conception of what macte Samuel...
...battered Norman town, zealous U.S. sanitary officers pursued a putrid smell. They arrived at a storehouse, staggered back as the full power of 10,000 ripening Camembert cheeses oozed out the opened door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...
...began to probe the enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
...went to Berlin. The streets were putrid with uncollected garbage. Unter den Linden was cluttered with war cripples who hobbled along as best they could, made imploring gestures, or "crouched against the cold, damp walls as though ashamed for the stranger to see their distorted leg and arm stumps, their dead eyes, or their faces scarred almost beyond recognition. . . ." The Germans were savage. They spat whenever the name of Matthias Erzberger, who signed the Armistice, was mentioned...
...Redheaded Bill Hippie had bad luck. He had boarded his transport and was taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...