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Ms Shriver has created an alter ego who is also her zaniest heroine: a slim, chilli-flake-eating exercise addict called Enola Mandi, an author who totes around a box of her own literary papers entitled “Foul Matter”.

The only safety with a water-closet, as with any other vessel connected with the drainage of the house, is to secure an immediate and complete washing away of all foul matter of every kind.

Smut, smut, n. a spot of dirt, soot, &c.: foul matter, as soot: Bunt, sometimes also Dust-brand, the popular name of certain small fungi which infest flowering land-plants, esp. the grasses, the name derived from the appearance of the spores, which are nearly black and very numerous: obscene language.—v.t. to soil with smut: to blacken or tarnish.—v.i. to gather smut: to be turned into smut:—pr.p. smut′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. smut′ted.—n.

Filth, filth, n. foul matter: anything that defiles, physically or morally.—adv.