Word: stench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imports collected for it by a U. S. customs agent, William E. Pullman. Sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, cocoa are their only important crops. World overproduction has ruined all four. A $30,000,000 loss is not a disaster to such a country, it is Calamity. Dominicans wandering in the stench of burning corpses last week took some comfort in the fact that cathedral, palace, fortress, nearly all their oldest stone buildings, withstood the hurricane...
...other hand the report does not in fact smell of "British hypocrisy" though angry Indians are sure to proclaim a veritable stench. Startling and definitely courageous is the proposal that the police - always the subject most rigidly "reserved" to British administration under Dyarchy - shall now be placed within the scope of native officialdom. Today the governor of a province may not appoint a native as his minister of police, but under the Commission's plan he could, and as time passed he would gradually be expected and finally forced by public opinion to appoint a native...
Playwright Robertson's melodrama follows the prevailing modes of theatrical violence; at times the stench of the underworld pervades his scenes, although he achieves not quite such horrid insinuations as those conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious...