Word: slimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
From the truck a greasy hubcap was unscrewed, clapped down on his head. "That's his crown!" crowed some youngster. Oily slime ran down the judge's face. His tormentors threw dirt at him which stuck to the grease...
...colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they will reach from the pearly...
...published. Lawrence to Murry: "You remember saying, T love you, Lorenzo, but I won't promise not to betray you?' W7ell, you can't betray me, and that's all there is to that. Ergo, just leave off loving me. Let's wipe off all that Judas-Jesus slime. Remember, you have betrayed everything and everybody up to now." Critics may dig long before they strike a better summation of Lawrence than one he gives himself: "And my Cockneyism and commonness are only when the deep feeling doesn't find its way out, and a sort of jeer comes instead...
...bills of exchange grew promissory notes and paper money, which is a government's promise to pay on demand. Italian lawyers last week adduced tradition & history for their opinion that Hyderabad might not legally repudiate the millions in paper rupees which the Artiglio IPs crew carefully cleared of sea slime and dried...