Word: odor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most recent candidate, introduced in Rome by Canon Mugnier from Paris, is Anne de Guigne who "died in the odor of sanctity at the age of 11" in 1922. She was a descendant of St. Louis, King of France. The special virtue of Maria Filippetto (1912-27) was "patient suffering for the love of God." Antonito Martinez Herrera (1920-29) was known for his "humility and charity." Guy de Font-galland (1913-25), son of an aristocratic Parisian family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little...
...only remaining evidences, however, to greet the returning inhabitants of the entry are discolorations of the ceilings and walls and a strange musty odor throughout the rooms...
...olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres, for lemon oil six to eight. These quantities he labeled "MIO"-minimum identified odor...
...kept below spoiling temperature. Akron. The tourists did not show up at the B. F. Goodrich rubber plant looking like janitors but they were obviously not wearing their best clothes. Reason: they had been forewarned that what clothes they wore through the plant would be thoroughly impregnated with the odor of rubber and soapstone...
...week's excitement at the State Department, and the eagerness of Secretary Hull to feel that everything had been finally settled, sprang naturally from the embarrassment of Peace Lovers when it was at first thought that British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden would find himself reeking with the odor of oil when he rose in Geneva to carry the Italy-Ethiopia crisis onto a high moral plane. The fact that Promoter Rickett is British and at first said that part of his financial backing was British had made young Mr. Eden look out of character for a few days...