Word: stink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman suffrage; only a handful of Gentiles will work with genuine zeal for the rescue of the German Jews. As long as repression, however widespread, is aimed chiefly at workers and avowed radicals, the middle class will inevitably minimize its importance or deny its existence. But when the stink bombs begin to drop in the academic trenches the troops tumble out and become aware that a war is actually on. And in this particular war, whether either of them likes it or not, President Conant and Angelo Herudon are enlisted in the same service--along with all the rest...
...probably only one of a great many that feel Harvard, permitted or promoted by President Conant, has spewed up a disgraceful, traitorous, communistic stink and hatched most of the un-American new deal, altogether the greatest threat to the United States stamina, popular liberty and morale since the Republic was founded...
...Kingsley's episode has been immeasurably enhanced by his collection of child actors. Although they are professional mummers, Tommy and most of his gang seem to come straight from Manhattan's slummy East Side. When they play gutter poker, knock each other down or yell, "You stink on ice!" they do so with great natural gusto and authority. Because of Master Halop & Co. and Designer Geddes' work. Dead End belongs on any theatrical "must" list...
...Great Master Connaught to hold the fifth investiture of Knights of the Bath in a hundred years. It was Connaught who in 1913 revived most of the ancient ritual, for decades in abeyance. Theory of the origin of the Bath is that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they swore "to defend maidens...
...Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs, kissing bugs, bumblebees and poisonous Central American centipedes. Once he added a flair by eating a black widow spider alive...