Word: rancidly
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...Lowell House stare down upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken: hacked instead of carved...
...Rancid butter, silver soiled...
...elaborate Ruttledge expedition. He rested one day, made a reconnaissance to Ruttledge's Camp No. 2, and returned to the monastery to gather strength for his supreme effort. The long-sleeved, yellow-hatted monks padding about in their cloth boots asked him no questions. Wilson drank their rancid butter-tea, watched the smoke of incense curling from bronze burners, rested. On May 17 he was at Camp No. 3 with his porters. He instructed them to wait two weeks, set out alone up the ridge with three loaves of bread, two tins of porridge, a camera. The porters lost...
...shows no sign of stopping when the picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord ups the rent and Vergie's radio breaks down...
...lungs clogged with them. Some think they poison their victims, others that the chief damage is loss of blood. Arkansas veterinarians and entomologists were researching frantically last week, but expected the gnats to be gone before they could learn much. Meantime they advised farmers to smear their stock with rancid lard and kerosene, with cottonseed oil and pine tar, or with a mixture of soap, water, petroleum and powdered naphthalin. But what the farmers really hoped for were a few good hot days, which drop gnats dead as quickly as they come...