Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have overtaxed his native stock of invective and sent him quarrying in the works of our early masters of vituperation. His recent characterization of the WPA ". . . Like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks" (TIME, July 18), rather ineptly retains the stench but loses the shine of the original simile which eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke applied to Edward Livingston over a century ago: "Fellow-citizens, he is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks...
...Rubber workers do not live "amid a pervading stench from the vats." There are no vats in rubber factories...
Akron naturally has rubber odors [TIME, June 6]. It is hardly fair, however, to refer to the "pervading stench" of Akron. ... If you must insist upon enlarging on the factory odors and the "flatlands" you should in fairness mention the odorless highlands of Goodyear Heights, one of our outstanding workingmen's developments of East Akron...
...hard-boiled lawyer, Arthur Brigham Rose. Lawyer Rose hired an equally hard-boiled private investigator, Harry Raymond, onetime Los Angeles patrolman and later Police Chief of San Diego. By last week, Clifford Clinton and his cafeteria reform party had managed to stir up the biggest Los Angeles political stench in a decade...
...dirty, malodorous flatlands of East Akron, where rubber workers live amid a pervading stench from the vats, there is widespread conviction that unionists who first perfected the U. S. sit-down technique cannot get much without fighting for it. On the heights of West Akron, where rubber executives live amid a stench diminished but not conquered by distance and altitude, there is an equally firm conviction that the flatland hordes will some day swarm up the hills, looting and shooting as they come. Last week Akron had a taste of trouble...