Word: stench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That music lovers in Madison, Wis., have at last been afforded relief from the stench pervading recent concerts. Madison, it seems, having no adequate house for big musical events, is forced to use the agricultural school's stock pavilion where many a lowing cow has left behind a scent-trace of its blue-ribboned presence. Citizen C. H. L'Hommediue of the Floralo Incense Co. saved the situation last week by spraying the place with a special eucalyptus formula of his own so that an audience could sit in aesthetic repose through a concert by the Madison Civic...
Meadow Lark Fearnot, a regal beagle, came flopping his ears with inquisitive dismay. The stench of many persons assailed his infinitely delicate nostrils; he would have enjoyed belling at the crowd of 10,000 people or biting a small girl who sat at the south east corner of the arena; these things were forbidden...
...their race has yet resisted him. The scene is the climax of Johnnie, a jazz opera now the hit-show of Vienna. One night last week, race-conscious Austrian students rebuked the decadence of an audience which was applauding Johnnie by tossing from the balcony numerous assorted smoke, stench and sneeze bombs...
...College de France, Paris, students protested violently against the views of Jules Loth, lecturer on anthropology. They felt urged to hurl twelve stench bombs into his lecture room. They did so. M. Loth's lectures were suspended...
...longer need families tether goats in backyards. No longer need they endure the caprice stench...