Word: putridity
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...concerned, TIME can go to hell. In the words of the hero of The Man Who Came to Dinner, "I am about to vomit" every time I read your super-emotionalism, your putrid cliches. . . . I do not consider any money being so wasted as my subscription to your literary and intellectual enigma...
...Ping-Pong. Venereal infection during World War I cost the Army 6,500,000 man-days (time lost in hospitals). Military police patrol towns as best they can, mark the most putrid spots "out of bounds." Military medicos provide soldiers with oral caution beforehand, treatment afterward, encourage local authorities to provide free prophylaxis stations. Army (and Navy) doctors generally prefer controlled segregation, covertly discourage the more extreme efforts of such agencies as the American Social Hygiene Association to abolish prostitution by legal action. Theory (which the Association disputes): when the business scatters, disease increases. Last week the Association proposed that...
...Theatre Project, it had spent $1,468,365 producing 27 plays, many of them flops. Congressman Taber of New York called "putrid" a bit in Sing For Your Supper where an old man appears and sings, "I don't wanna be intellectual. I wanna be sexual...
Always provocative, Benito Mussolini observed: "I cannot believe that Europe will set fire to itself to cook Prague's putrid...
Columbia's account may be heard through station WABC in New York with Ted Husing, famed for his former banishment from announcing Harvard sports for calling a Crimson "putrid." Bill Stern will announce for National...