Word: stink
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Accept my congratulations on your mail-bags of this morning and the other day. You have gloriously fulfilled the CRIMSON'S grand old motto. "Make a stink." Though the callowness and hyperbole in your anonymous communications will prevent their hurting the eminent young scholar against whom they were directed, they cannot fail to decrease his interest in teaching and in the course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done...
...morning and it bred worms and stank." Moses was vexed. The Lord's instructions had been to gather a two-day supply on Fridays so as not to have to work on the Sabbath. This they did, kept it over Friday night, and lo, "it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein...
...French chefs. He spoke with verve and passion in his own defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in the chest with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great chef cannot be thus baited with impunity! Blood swam before my eyes. ... I skewered him it is true. . . . Next...
...Wetzel said nothing. He was so angry now that he could not speak, nor could he see the ball. Nobility won the set 9-7 and changed courts for the third, remarking, as he sniffed the air, that whoever had last played on that side had made it stink fearfully of the kitchen. Young Wetzel threw down his racket. The match went to nobility by default...
...complex; about monthly he rouses his family in the night, bundles them up, poises for flight, then goes back to bed. Lucy's woe is his lost estates; he finally hangs himself, arrayed in Aunt Teresa's silk underwear, stockings and boudoir cap. Georges' is the stink that Beastly makes shaving; Beastly has a tender skin and has to burn his beard off. Aunt Teresa's is her health and the death of her son Anatole, court-martialed in France...