Word: reeked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric...
...supplanted the cash phrase. With this before them, Vandenberg and the Opposition groomed for the latest Battle of a Century of many battles. On strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco-quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric; constantly he saw Borah and McNary; constantly he smiled his Kewpie smile with the air of a cat set for cream. La Follette's crisp battle-slogan: "We'll fight this thing from Hell to breakfast" he contentedly adopted as his own policy...
...faculty received grants from the Fund: Willie Apel, George H. Chase, Henry Chauncey, Henry A. Christian, William Dameshok, Dana B. Durand. Ralph E. Fadum. Know, B. Finley, Alden B. Greuinger, Frederick V. Hunt, Perry G. F. Miller, Samuel E. Morison. Arthur E. Norton, Ralph B. Perry, John Reek Reinheld Rudenberg, Karl Sax, Theodore E. Sterne, Theodore J. B. Stier, Paul A. Vesisl, Robert W. Vose, Ralph H. Wetmore, and George E. Wistocki...
...Paris on her ear with his expressionistic ballets. His surrealist film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under the influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus says, "Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule...
...summer of 1845, on an Irish air long heavy with the smell of dung heaps, peat bogs and the personal reek of an ill-kempt and poverty-ridden citizenry, a new and more awful odor arose. Sulphurous, acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were...