Word: odor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California holds its Charter Day exercises in a handsome open Greek Theater on the first slope of the hills which rise from San Francisco Bay. Early one morning last fortnight workmen groomed the Theater for an overflow crowd. At the foot of the slope, swishing academic gowns trailed an odor of mothballs through Faculty Glade. Class banners clustered about the base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided...
...sales are accounted for by the Hershey bar (almond and plain, 5? and 10?). The rest comes from breakfast cocoa, chocolate syrup, chocolate covering for "enrobing" the candy of other manufacturers. On windless summer days the town of Hershey, Pa. (pop. 2,500) is permeated by a sweet sickish odor which Pennsylvania Dutch farmers round about call "da chockle shtink." But the Hershey earnings have not always been as steady as the Hershey "chockle shtink." Net profit dropped from $7,635,000 in 1931 to $4,246,000 in 1933, largely on account of competition from Peters and Nestle...
...Marked Tree in January when a youngster of 24 named Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the Union, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers. Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation...
...romantic twilight envelops the workers, and upon the heavy air is borne an odor like none other in the modern world. It seems transported directly from the stately charnal-vaults of Chartres. Dimly, along the shadow-filled edges of the room, great banks of books may be seen, arousing in one a sense of the immensity of knowledge and of its intangibility. In this atmosphere one feels the spirit of the venerable Bede, who completed his biblical translation--despite failing eyesight--by candlelight in his cell at Jarrow. Great indeed is the library that fosters this passionate self-forgetfulness...
...News lives vividly for a day, fades quickly into staleness, fossilizes eventually into history. But most of it is simply forgotten: it lies abandoned in old newspaper files like heaps of dried lavender. Gradually, with the passage of years, its mustiness changes to a delicate old-fashioned odor. Editor ffrench,* a rummager rather than a historian, followed her nose through dusty English newspaper files (1805-87), pasted her miscellaneous finds into this 650-page album, calls it "the autobiography of the 19th Century." Erudite historians may find nothing startling in News from the Past, but 20th Century readers, if they...