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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rankling Abuse | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Manna | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: English Impeached | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Around a trunk in the Union Station, Toledo, crowded porters, reporters and detectives. With left hands they held their noses. With right hands they struggled awkwardly to open a "mystery trunk, which stank in a manner to indicate that it might contain matter for the strong stomachs of yellow journalism. Then, with a final "Right." Detective De Lora whanged the trunk open with a crowbar. Out rolled several dozen heads of cabbage. The trunk, emptied, was held for its owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 12, 1925 | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...Having surprised him in Paris, at a moment when he was closeted in a hotel room with a certain Mrs. Robinson, they extracted $750,000 of "hush money" and promptly fell quarreling among themselves as to its disposition. In the course of as noxious a law suit as ever stank before an English judge, they introduced all the facts concerning their Oriental victim's indiscretions. And the British Government, "for the highest reasons of State, caused the indiscreet Sir Hari to be shielded as long as possible under the famed sobriquet of A.", which of course was finally penetrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Jammu and Kashmir | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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