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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashions in smell vary with geography, too. The authors point out that Chinese gourmets, rebuked for liking "rotten eggs," can point with horror to the "rotten milk" (cheese) that Westerners find so delicious. "The shade of offense from odors," the authors note, "is measured by time, place, occasion and inurement...
...away his popcorn at the start of a double feature. The library had to close but time was of no matter to him. Neither was thought, and be dwelt deliciously on the experience. Never had he felt more perfectly in tune with his surroundings, and he made a mental note to tell his barber all about it. But no time for that now--the barbershop was closed, and more important, his aesthetic experience had been interrupted. Throwing the tie around his neck, searl fashion, he stalked out of Lamont and set off to find a good, stiff Pernod...
...holds that today's bomber has an advantage over the fighter aircraft. Last week the man who has charge of developing the Air Force's planes and weapons, General Joseph T. McNarney, Chief of the Air Materiel Command, backed his colleagues' views, but he added a note of caution. In the 1930s, he recalled in an interview, airmen had the same notion, but the supposedly invulnerable bombers got badly shot up by fighters early in World...
...Columnist Rodney meekly wrote : "I was off, and am trying to correct myself ... In any case involving a white and a Negro, it is the Negro who is prejudged and presumed guilty . . . This is what I seem to have forgotten." Wrote Columnist Mardo : "This writer would like to take note of the serious criticism he has received for the errors of omission [which] resulted in a poor, politically incorrect column . . . There should have been no discussion of [Commissioner] Chandler and Durocher without linking it to the main question of white chauvinism inherent in this whole case. I deserved the alert...
Dickens had other ways of shocking friends such as Landor. He once sent the poet a deadpan note confiding 1) that he had fallen in love with Queen Victoria ("Don't mention this unhappy attachment," Dickens warned another friend gravely) and 2) that, in order to recover from this sad affair, he intended "to kidnap a [royal] maid of honor and take her to an uninhabited island." It was no wonder that London buzzed with fantastic rumors and no wonder that Dickens found himself furiously denying that he had suddenly "become a Roman Catholic and was raving...