Word: stench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heat and you get some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive. . . . And how these Bostonians get a dead man out of the chair! . . . Elliott . . . started to put on the electrode and now I observed that Vanzetti was getting nervous. . . . There was a sickening stench of scorched flesh in the abattoir. Vanzetti's neck was slowly but surely turning to a blood red and the jugular veins were doubling up in knots...
will doubtless write this scene into another play with an even more successful stench. Last week his "new twist" was to let the Major succumb to the wife after tongue-lashing her, and then to bring the husband wistfully on the scene...
...given to any Democrat on the ticket. And then suddenly his smile twisted into agony-sharp, devastating pain arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover on a schooner coming up; the Chicago River, a sidewalk inspector with ambition, an alderman whose jokes were understandable, a county treasurer who did not annoy the people, a sheriff-elect who was dying...
...that all this football stench has been wafted upon the breezes of the autumn air and all that sort of thing, may I suggest that there is in my heart a profound respect for Princeton. Princeton is the only college, not to mention university, in this country which supports a drum with such a drummer as appeared between the halves and the goal posts last Saturday. Before Gilbert Seldes and the other higher aesthetes get a chance I wish to have it definitely stated that that drummer is a great artist. Like a moth ball in a derby...
...stench of Bernarr Macfadden's published dejecta rises from twelve magazines and three newspapers. The magazines-Physical Culture, Dream World, True Stories, True Experiences, True Romances, National Pictorial Monthly, Movie Weekly, and the like-have a total circulation, he claims, of 5,000,000 copies. The New York Graphic, the worst of his papers in morals, is the best in circulation (360,596 daily). He has become a potent force in U. S. subculture...