Word: stinkingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People meet me on the street and ask, 'Have you been confirmed yet?' It's just like saying 'Have you had your daily bath?' I say, 'No, I still stink.' One of my friends asked me, 'Is your sickness just a convenient exit?' I told him, 'It's an exit, but it isn't convenient...
...questions about political affiliation and the ownership of bathrooms are several revealing facts about the Class of '26 that few people knew before. For instance, the Class boasts in its ranks one former presidential candidate, one probable embezzler, one arsonist, and one fellow responsible for "the secreting of a stink bomb in the ventilating system of the New York Stock Exchange...
Though he is clearly talented, Novelist Ayer has written a book that is long on artiness and short on life, full of mincing chatter and burdened with too complex a structure. His final approach to his people is as simple and inadequate as a cliche: the rich, he feels, stink. This may or may not be true, but his novel never gets close enough to his people to prove it. What was meant as a clever portrait of social decay pretty much ends as a mannered exercise in claustrophobia...
...critics discreetly moved the ceremony to the Rainbow Room in the RCA building. The Paris Theater was emptied twice after telephone tips were received that the theater would be bombed. One bombing threat was received by St. Patrick's. But as of this week, not even a stink bomb had gone off in either place...
...this scene and with these words, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, biggest postwar noise in France, declares the text of Volume III in his long existential sermon, the four-volume novel called The Roads to Freedom. Sartre's richly rewarded purpose is to trace the stink of defeat to its sources in the French soul and, before he is through, to demonstrate the uses of existentialism as a spiritual disinfectant-or at least deodorant...