Word: stank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signal they let fly, aiming not at the players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their clergyman and sang...
...crony of Uncle Leopold, and profited accordingly. Quaint was Mr. Lever's presentation to King Leopold II of an ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn't lather," when he sought to use it "out of compliment to M. Lever...
Paternally he listened while they explained that the Bishop of Urgel, his co-Suzerain, has recently appointed not Andorrans but Spaniards to carry the Andorra mails. Here was surely an abuse that stank to Heaven! Would not good Prince Gaston move the hard heart of the haughty Prince-Bishop...
Moses cautioned them to gather no more manna than they needed for one meal, not to keep any overnight. "But some of them left it until the morning and it bred worms and stank." Moses was vexed. The Lord's instructions had been to gather a two-day supply on Fridays so as not to have to work on the Sabbath. This they did, kept it over Friday night, and lo, "it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein...
...taste, they said, but unless he has been guilty of one definite act worthy of impeachment, he cannot be impeached. The majority of the House took the exactly opposite view. They argued that Judge English's conduct must be considered as a whole, and if as a whole it stank to heaven, then he should be impeached even if there was no one proved crime or misdemeanor. The majority...