Word: stenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoare, who were vulgarly believed last week to head factions in His Majesty's Government respectively opposed to and favoring peace by dismemberment of Ethiopia, will cooperate shoulder to shoulder with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in an historic airing in the House of Commons of the international stench...
...dispatches to reach London gave Benin the name it has since held- "The City of Blood." Grinning King Overami did not want Consul Phillips to enter his town because for three months he and his chieftains had been slaughtering living slaves in memory of the dead King Adolo. The stench of rotting corpses was overpowering. Blackamoors had been crucified to ladders made between two trees, left there to feed the buzzards. On the city's mud altars the carved tusks and terrifying bronze heads, displayed in Manhattan last week, were caked thick with dried human blood...
...pineapple prices slumped also. Second, Mr. Dole could do nothing to cut pineapple production, because it takes about two years to grow a pineapple and Mr. Dole was reaping in 1932 as he had sown in 1930. Result: unmarketable pineapples piled up in Mr. Dole's factory, their stench polluting the Hawaiian air. Further result: pineapples dropped from $5.20 a case to $2.70; the 1932 pack totaled 847,000 cases against more than 4,800,000 in 1931; and in 1932 the Dole company lost (mostly on inventory) $8,448,882. In December 1932, Mr. Dole was promoted...
...staves of a collapsing barrel. Two freight cars beside the loading platform were reduced to chips. Bodies of workmen landed in the street, one 50 ft. from the plant. A water tank sailed through the air, smashed an automobile flat as a cockroach. Shattered gas mains spread a sickening stench. Firemen, menaced by loops of live wires, were afraid to cut into the shambles with acetylene torches because of fumes. The last of the dead was not removed until four days after the blast. Toll: eleven killed, 45 injured...
...most extraordinary quality of Seven Pillars of Wisdom is that, almost alone among modern War books, it invests warfare with a degree of glamour and heroism. Nor is this quality purchased by avoiding the gruesome butcheries, stench, gore and decay characteristic of battlefields. The glamour of Seven Pillars of Wisdom springs from the fact that most of the actions undertaken, audacious examples of individual daring such as raids into enemy country, are described with a light and mocking air, as if they were little more than schoolboy pranks. Lawrence evidently treasured all human life except his own. He was constantly...