Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth senior in the second row nudges the man beside him. "Hell," he says, "I could smear that big set-up in five minutes...
...Columbia undergraduate is strongly perturbed. A cup of coffee in one hand and a library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...
...accepting financial support from Big Business, but the new custom still smells rank in old Japanese nostrils. Twice scandal has invaded the Cabinet of harassed Premier Makoto Saito, smoked out two of its members. It seemed only a question of time until the great Bank of Taiwan scandal should smear the Cabinet. Last week...
...animals got throats and lungs clogged with them. Some think they poison their victims, others that the chief damage is loss of blood. Arkansas veterinarians and entomologists were researching frantically last week, but expected the gnats to be gone before they could learn much. Meantime they advised farmers to smear their stock with rancid lard and kerosene, with cottonseed oil and pine tar, or with a mixture of soap, water, petroleum and powdered naphthalin. But what the farmers really hoped for were a few good hot days, which drop gnats dead as quickly as they come...
...approve of girls dancing without any covering whatsoever," Sally announced with emphasis. "I shouldn't feel properly dressed at all unless I had something on, and so I smear white clay on my body before each performance. Here in Cleveland the Police also make me wear panties, and, although the audience can't determine whether I have anything on a policeman is always around to make sure I am properly clad...