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Rocking back and forth and waving his cigarette, Leonard Glaser tried last night "to give you a picture of a society that says, 'Undertaker wanted, no questions asked.' It stinketh." Glaser, National Representative of the Committee for Narcotics Reform, delivered a street-corner harangue at PBH, in which he jousted with American drugs laws and ended up lancing the world's sins...
...Then rose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher (Hancock) the Ruler & said, behold our Butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray thee Butter that stinketh...
...composed, but also the context of the modern readers' sensibilities. This leads him to some surprising alterations. In the King James passage describing the raising of Lazarus, for instance, Martha protests Christ's command to open the tomb with the words: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." Phillips' version: "But Lord," said Martha, "he has been dead four days. By this time he will be decaying...
According to a contemporary account, "Then arose Asa the scribe, and went unto Belcher, the ruler, and said behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us, we pray thee, Butter that stinketh not..." However phrased in fact, this request was turned down. A strike followed and the undergraduate body deserted Hollis Hall, the commons, almost entirely...
...food got so bad under Hoar's administration that when students rebelled, the police had to be called to restore order. In 1766 students went on strike for a month in what was known as the Butter Rebellion, driving the Corporation frantic. "The butter stinketh," was a common...