Word: stinking
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...life in preference to hoarding the sovereigns of greater men. Life with Mary circumscribed his sense of proportion and drove him into what he called "depressions, black as a smith's beard." Praised by his friends for his courage and devotion, he only answered tersely: "I stink in the midst of respect." Only Mary's misfortunes could lessen the pain of his own -which is why a wit named them "Gum Boil and Toothache," each being "a great relief" to the other...
...feel that this is an example, on a small scale, of the type of McCarthy scare that is suffusing the government at this time," Coolidge said. "They feel that if McCarthy had gotten wind of my appointment, he would have raised a terrific stink...
...Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made up a word for his supporters-Speckfranzosen, i.e., literally, bacon-Frenchmen; loosely, pro-French for material interests. They jeered at the portly Joho as a longtime French puppet, and threw stones and stink bombs to break up his meetings. Whenever he appeared, crowds were on hand to beset him. When he addressed Brebach steelworkers last week, hecklers crowded outside the hall and yelled "Pfui!" when he left...
...social butterfly ("I was brilliant ... I was wearing a waistcoat, silk breeches and black stockings, with a cinnamon-bronze coat, a very well arranged cravat, a superb frill . . . My whole soul appeared") was brought to earth by the lucid critic ("I realize that the works I've written stink...
...just the night before, he had butted, bunny-hugged and bulled his way through a feeble 15-round imitation of a fist fight, walked off with a unanimous decision and the Kid's title. A loud majority of the fans agreed that no performance had raised such a stink in Convention Hall since the Progressive Party Convention...