Word: slime
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...Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime from which they came; and those who liked to see them swatted have turned their minds to other things. But to identify the decline of the Mercury with the decline of Mr. Mencken is a sorry fallacy; one was an instrument fitted to an age which was impermanent...
...marvelous thing is the crawfish. He revels in mud and in slime. He wallows in gutters, this raw fish, And has a most wonderful time...
...marvelous thing is the crawfish. He revels in mud and in slime. He wallows in gutters, this raw fish, And has a most wonderful time...
...Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels] and the caption under it is an affront to to not only every Jew in the world but to every individual who loves decency and respects his fellow man. Does TIME find it necessary to go down into the gutters and slime of the world to embellish its covers? Is there not enough intolerance and racial hatred in this world of ours without TIME playing it up? It might just as well be news for TIME to tell in its pages and picture on its covers the sayings and doings of Sexual...
...disent Ies grenouilles? ("What say the frogs [of Paris]?'') was a common phrase among courtiers of Louis XVI at Versailles just before the French Revolution, referred to the fact that the Paris rabble were supposed to live like frogs in slime. Eighteenth Century Englishmen, suspecting that their French enemies ate frogs' legs, called them contemptuously "frogs...