Word: stinkingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week one of the handsomest apologies ever offered by a chief executive to a mere deputy. Fortnight ago the President had accused Deputy Mulcahy, onetime Free State Defense Minister of going to Glasgow for a secret conference with British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham-an act that would stink of treason to the nose of any Irishman...
...traditional debating forum of future British statesmen -thus on record by an overwhelming pacifist majority, members of the more obscure Manchester University Union bestirred themselves. Next evening they voted 371 to 196 that This house will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country. During the Oxford vote stink bombs were thrown, but proceedings at Manchester were strictly decorous...
...series of dull explosions and a dreadful stench drove 4,000 guests of the Centre Asturiano Regional Society dance out into the night. The smell was traced to the person of Bartolome Mas, 25, when a stink bomb exploded in his pocket...
...things to all men. As they are, cur and hound, bitch and pup, Tray and Nero, the names that men apply to them betray the way that men think of them. No name for a dog carries less than the nasty meaning unconsciously given fragrant words like "stink," nor has any animal gained such universal, nay, such high praise. All who learn to read know the foul loathing for the hound which Shakespeare held, the fear and contempt which the beast inspired in the ancients; those who have no knowledge of the creature's filthy ways have idealized...
Other booksellers may hold "sales" with astoundingly high discounts and cry "Stinking fish" over their merchandise. Our fish do not stink...