Word: rancidly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...innocent man." When Otto Kruger sees the picture of the lady in question, he gurgles rudely, and then orders the girl and his junior partner to leave. "My love, ahhh, ooo." And he crushes the picture and frame and glass as gracefully as he would squeeze a rancid orange...
...should have turned aside to make me the target for rancid legends is quite mystifying, inasmuch as I am a private citizen, holding no office and caring for none. I am not thin skinned but even the most calloused individual would resent the untruths and false insinuations that drip from p. 13 of your Oct. 30 issue...
True to the traditions of American politics, Messrs, Laguardia, McKee, and O'Brien are hard at work in Manhattan tossing vehement accusations and rancid remarks at each other in well-meaning efforts to show John Public that at the polls he will have a choice between two hellers and one saint, the labels varying according to the speaker. O'Brien is busy pleading for fair play and no quotations; Laguardia occupies himself in smearing his two opponents with the same Tammany brush; and McKee spends his time replying to Judge Seabury's attacks. This is all according to Tweed...
Little though it was known outside of Asia. China was rancid with cholera this summer, a pestilential menace to the rest of the globe. By last week, as cold weather crept over the country, the trouble was subsiding. Remembered then was the prediction of Dr. J. H. Jordan. British Commissioner of Public Health of the Shanghai International Settlement, that the disease, which is always skulking in China, would be especially virulent this year. Some 500,000 Chinese contracted the disease, some 150,000 died (Dr. Jordan's estimate). Last July Dr. Robert Watson Hart, chief of the American Oriental...
...renomination. In a long message ad dressed "to my fellow Americans," Candidate France, who lives the life of a country squire on his Cecil County farm, declared Wet, flayed President Hoover for his lack of "candor and courage" on the Prohibition issue, denounced the Farm Board's activities, excoriated "rancid radicalism." As a physician (he was graduated from Baltimore's College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1903) he diagnosed the aftermath of the War: "the ligaments of international association torn, the arteries of intercourse blocked, the nerves of effective international concert paralyzed, painful financial dislocations...