Word: stinketh
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Butter that stinketh...
...sight of which Harvard students laid down their table implements; sweet dairy butter was passed at which they bit their thumbs. Things reached a crisis about the butter, in colonial days, when a "Butter Rebellion" was organized, and Harvard funny men chanted a petition alleging that "our butter stinketh,- give us therefore, butter that stinketh not." Sir Thomas Bernard, the Royal Governor, suppressed the insurgent popinjays, but the spirit of the dead rebellion lingered noticeably in the air. There have been, from time to time, other unpleasant outbursts. White cloths were put upon the tables, meal tickets were provided, young...