Word: stink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Bureau for Medical Aid to China this week releases for its first Manhattan showing a Key Scott film on the bombing of Chungking. The film has the shortcomings of most camera-eye reports: it does not stink, like gangrene, nor scream, like a child shot through the stomach...
...system. ... I don't agree with my colleagues in extending you leniency. . . . You have no more right being in the publishing business than I have in an airplane, and I have never been in one." Then, shaking his finger at the white-faced defendant, Justice Hackenburg shouted: "You stink...
P.P.S. For the next few years I shall confine my reading to The Earthly Paradise, Maud and The Princess. They stink too but the odor is so, so pretty...
...only is the idea itself in rather poor taste, but also the songs themselves, which can best be described in the language of their composers, as "strictly from hunger." In other words, they stink, and no two ways about it. That includes everything, from God Bless America, I Am An American, He's My Uncle, (Sam--how did you guess?), right down (and I do mean down) to Ballad For Americans, the latter designed to appeal to those intellectuals still hanging on to the battered remains of a party line. (Although I'll qualify this by saying that Paul Robeson...
...crowded underground shelters of London have many drawbacks. One is that they stink. Another is that the air in them is laden with germs. Last week in the Lancet, Scientists Charles Claud Twort and A. H. Baker of the Portslade Laboratories in Sussex came out for an old-fashioned way of doing away with disagreeable smells which is a newfangled way of doing away with germs: burning incense...