Word: stench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From all this much-traveled Mayor Walker might have gathered that his errand of mercy was looked upon with favor in California. Such, however, was far from the case. "Impropriety . . ." grumbled the Fresno Bee. "Easier than attempting to clean up the Augean stench of Gotham!" sneered the Stockton Record. "PUBLICITY SPECTACLE . . . PROPAGANDA HIPPODROME . . . BALLYHOO!" screamed the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Nieuwland, C.S.C., of Notre Dame University. Father Nieuwland, born a Belgian, at tended Notre Dame and later settled down in South Bend to a life of avowed poverty and chemical research. In 1906 he passed some acetylene into a copper salt mixture and obtained therefrom a strange and terrific stench...
Father Nieuwland, holding his nose, decided that if he could separate the derivative responsible for the stench, he might have something interesting. Fifteen years later he succeeded: By use of a more highly concentrated mixture he produced a liquid which he called divinylacetylene. Father Nieuwland shook his head, decided it might be good for drying oil or possibly sheep...
Mobsmen drove the police first from Sir Ronald's garage, poured gasoline on the six Government cars, burnt them with yells of triumph and great stench of rubber & paint. Next they stove in the locked door of Government house, smashed Sir Ronald's choice parlor ornaments, knifed his oil paintings, fouled his bedroom. Setting fire at last to Government House in five places, Cyprus' Greeks burnt it utterly to the ground, sang as it burned the National Anthem of the Greek Republic...
...Though it was apparently growing wild, the agents were sure so much marijuana had not sprung up by chance. Carefully guarding the secret of its location, they hurried to the Board of Health, had the marijuana patch declared a menace to public health and ordered burned with great public stench...