Word: odor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Masaryk created Czechoslovakia. As a professor in Prague he vehemently preached Czech and Slovak nationalism, got himself into bad odor with the Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient...
...that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has survived a little too long. Those who never expected much from Author Benét will take the book for what it is—a pleasantly nostalgic romance; but those who thought John Brown's Body promised even higher flights...
...course Dr. Wirt may have thought it up by himself, but there is a fairly familiar odor of Ham and Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
Ambergris is hard to recognize. Though it is usually ash-grey, it may be white, black, yellow or mottled like marble. It may have a fragrant odor, or an overpowering stench. Some experts claim that even chemical analysis is shaky and that ambergris, like a fine wine, may be truly identified only by its bouquet. For use in perfumes raw ambergris must be ground in a mortar, soaked for six months in 95% alcohol...
...Philippines, annoyed Filipino patriots. This time Authoress Mayo, with sleeves rolled up and muck rake firmly in hand, has waded into the U. S. soldier-pension mess. Statistics and indignation darken her pages like pitch forked dung. By the time she has finished turning over her unsavory material its odor is strong enough to make even a standpat Congressman hold his nose...