Word: rancidity
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...Long and rancid have been the efforts of a British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders to force Mississippi to pay. Last week for the first time a group of U. S. holders of the defaulted bonds advertised themselves anonymously in Manhattan, prepared for action against Mississippi...
...able lawyer of Westfield. bears a strange resemblance to the State's last Democratic Governor ? that great vote-getter, big-faced, handsome David Ignatius Walsh, now U. S. Senator. Of middling height and weight, Governor Ely violates all rules of Massachusetts Democracy by smoking cigarets instead of rancid cigars. A quick, flashy smile has rendered him immensely popular. As Governor, he transferred from his own Chrysler to the Chrysler sedan furnished by the State but kept his private chauffeur. At the State House he received, among many another, a great floral tribute from Motorman Walter Percy Chrysler...
Then, balancing a limp-plumed bonnet, in stalks Beatrice Lillie to be jostled by a bus queue for five minutes of mute martydom, wherein the only betrayal of her cold, furious resentment is a sublime, rancid smirk, and at long last a fervent "Taxi!" Nine times in all she appears, and whether it is the channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak...
...Taylor the study of catalytic agents-those substances which accelerate, retard, or even cause chemical change, while remaining themselves unchanged. Catalytic agents are used to vulcanize rubber. Chemist Taylor's experiments have been with substances which prevent rubber from rotting, dyed materials from fading, oil from becoming rancid...
...another careless sailor, pursued by a fate more stubborn than an albatross. Hitherto the life of John Paul Jones has been clothed in mystery or history-book nonsense. Now, when the ancient long-respected knights and statesmen are drawn, quartered and made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire, it has pleased Author Russell to remember one of the old giants whose grotesqueries serve only to make him more magnificent, whose gaieties and gambles with disaster, whose foolish posings and conceited gestures, only make more regrettable the decay of so splendid and so irregular a period as that...