Word: stench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mandatory that the stench of the gutter must permeate most of today's viewable entertainment...
Always a Formula. When Bryant, as his family called him, was growing up in Dorchester, on the southern edge of Boston, his hobby was chemically analyzing his mother's laundry soap. The stench forced his photoengraver father to build him a lean-to lab outside the house. But the boy chemist's talents got him into famed Roxbury Latin School (he was the most precocious science student in 20 years) and through Harvard in three years. He married the daughter of Harvard's top chemist; in 1931 Professor Conant himself took over the department. "Bryant," said...
...Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed and perfumed male of the era might choose from 50 shades of stockings with which to drape his shapely shanks. Some of the morosely fanciful hues: dying monkey, resuscitated corpse, lost time, mortal sin, and (says Author West primly...
...then lowered, again raised and with difficulty chop off a piece of meat from the inexorably moving carcasses on the conveyor belt. Blood runs down on the dirty, pock-marked cement floor. The monotonous humming of the conveyor, the hoarse breathing of the women meat workers, and the stagnant stench of the poorly ventilated premises...
...nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family for the heart of Africa. There, amid parching heat and native stench, his ironic adventures form a highly abstract quest for the meaning of life and death, illusion and reality...