Word: stench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported by those who heard him, Pastor Shaw declared that the average modern newspaper, not excluding the dailies right there in Binghamton, were not worth more than 15 minutes of the time of a Christian reader. Some in the congregation quoted Pastor Shaw as adding: "Modern newspapers are a stench in the nostrils of decent people and reek with accounts of crime and filth...
...mound, the two enter the ancient graveyard and stay there reading the epitaphs till twilight falls around them. This is the tenuous framework upon which Walter De La Mare has shaped one more unearthly, sad and lovely book. Turning, as always, from what is to him the Stench, trespass and futility of the present, he breaks bread with phantoms; in these pages the dead stand up and breathe, the living are the ghosts. His words-like the matches the young lady strikes to read epitaphs by in the darkening graveyard-light, for a shining second, Death's crabbed...
With angry shouts from the Opposition ringing in his ears, with the stench of political dissatisfaction offending his nostrils and with sympathy paraded for Matteotti torturing his vision, Benito set to work to clear up the situation in his own terse way. He made the following speeches...
...Shouts, stench, sympathy. They offended ears, nose, vision...
This comedy seems deliberately intent on creating a malomorous reputation. It deals with the overpowering stench engendered by a rare and delicious fruit from China, which, when eaten (by two members of an English household)-permanently imbues them with the aura of a skunk. To inspire further jocularity, the men are compelled to wear diving suits to suppress the effluvia, while devoted friends visit them in gas masks. Eventually one of the men shoots himself, hounded to his grave by a smell...