Word: stench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noticing a "For Rent" sign on a vacant farmhouse near Chicago's suburban Deerfield, a passerby stopped in to look around. In the backyard he heard feeble whimpers coming from a little shack, smashed a window. Braving a nauseous stench, he crawled inside, found six Scotch terriers huddled in a corner. Obviously near death from stifling and starvation, the six little dogs were rotting bags of bones, their teeth and gums infected, their bodies covered with shiny black spots where their hair had fallen...
...what a stench! Black maggots, tasteless, fleshy matter. Food. Green food. Those hills he had read of, those places where the soil was rich, and good, clean, food grew. Stew! Brew, grew, stew, whew...
Civilian Rule. The smell of spring survived the stench of corpses in Madrid last week. A few almond trees bravely retained their bloom as the Rightists continued to flail Madrid day after day with unremitting shellfire. And from Valencia, where Leftist Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was still seeking refuge, an order was sent to Madrid dissolving Madrid's Supreme Defense Junta, headed by formidable General José Miaja who for almost six months has been the Capital's all-powerful boss. Because Madrid had been shelled for 13 consecutive days Premier Largo Caballero felt that General Miaja...
...particularly exasperating. Some of the papers reminded him of dead fish and rotten eggs. When he handed the papers back to their authors, he did so in a new way. None of the papers was marked, but flunkers found theirs in a jar from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide. The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse than Limburger cheese. Able students were odoriferously rewarded. The jar from which they drew their papers had been fragrantly scented with attar of roses...
...long time Tulsa, Oklahoma, had the said oil helds and the acrid stench of petroleum, the world said, "Of Oklahoma expect only the and the oil of the soil." Yet KVOO of produced such ideahists in radio as Kathryn former Tulsa University student, whose voice resounds from coast coast in Columbia's Through a Woman's Miss Cravens tried and the stage before voice was radio. Now an manufacturer is have her voice his auspices