Word: reeked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the plane was Movietone Editor Edmund Reek, primed to edit the assassination and compose sound captions on the flight back to Manhattan. Since the dangerous pick-up at sea would itself be news the plane carried a $20,000 sound camera...
...more coherent. Just before the Civil War Northerners were speaking hotly of South Carolina as "that bullying State ... let the damned little thing go." Southern journalists were spiritedly responding: "Not a breeze that blows from the Northern hills but bears upon its wings taints of crime and vice, to reek and stink, and stink and reek upon our Southern plains." In 1830 the argument between Massachusetts and South Carolina in the U. S. Senate was still parliamentary, but by 1856 it had descended to murderous fisticuffs...
...Harvard Freshman Lacrosse team will have an opportunity to reek sweet revenge when it meets the Tuffs '37 team this afternoon in an unscheduled game. Tufts defeated the Freshmen in their first game of the season, but since them the Crimson team has been strewing its opponents left and right, and has shown remarkable improvement...
...WILLIAM CORBETT'S LETTER [March 12] IF LINDBERGH IS NOT AN OUTSTANDING FLYER THE WRIGHT BROTHERS WERE WRONG AND CORBETT'S SECOND AND PARTICULARLY THIRD PARAGRAPHS FAIRLY REEK WITH GOOD TASTE. AMONG MY FRIENDS ALL HAVE A PASSING INTEREST AND LITTLE ADMIRATION FOR OUR PRESIDENT BUT THEY ARE ALL ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT COLONEL LINDBERGH. PERSONALITIES ARE STILL ODIOUS...
...four miniature studies, descriptions of sights he had seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly see the children Bennett had seen playing behind Notre-Dame, the glimpse of Montmartre's tinseled night life, the noisy Place d' Italic with its reek of garlic, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which through Bennett's eyes seemed more futile than impressive...