Word: rancidity
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...South Carolina accent was heard in more than 300 Radio Berlin broadcasts, composed largely of rancid outpourings against "the paranoiac in the White House," "Clown Churchill," "the Jew Deal," the "Bolshevik Beast...
...turn of the century: "Erne is an old jade of 50 summers; Jessie is a frisky filly of 40; and Addie, the flower of the family, a capering monstrosity of 35. Their long skinny arms . . . swing mechanically [and wave] frantically at the suffering audience. The mouths of their rancid features opened like caverns, and sounds like the waitings of damned souls issued therefrom...
...only result in a smaller and smaller dollar harvest from the already less copious graduates. Such exorbitant charges as $30 for running off the stencils of the Album's mailing list, general milking of graduating classes for every cent of the wasteful costs of Class Day exercises, leave rancid tastes that are bound to linger through the years. And it is still expected that, through an almost dead class loyalty, the alumni will still come across with cheery alacrity...
...kind of gossipy fluency that makes many women's letters easy reading. He has also managed to smuggle into print (suitably disguised) a verb seldom seen in polite English prose since Lady Chatterley's Lover. In fact, Slobodkin has assimilated himself so completely to the somewhat rancid life of his crewmates that some readers may feel that they have listened to a five-hour monologue by a seafaring stablehand...
...Holain, and Ohio's own is nursing a morning after chin. "Next time I'll pick a fight," quock our hero as he regained his feet. The oldest man in the world, M. C. Smith, originally dubbed "Smitty" by his 69-year-old brother, had a joyous ranchy (spelled "rancid") week end in the company of many Chase Hall stalwarts including Dave Staff and Milcap's one man gang, Bill Stark. It was diminutive Staff, incidentally, who put his five foot, three inch frame in roommate James E. Smith's six foot, four inch coat over the never...