Word: odor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 1931, Orator Coughlin at a Holy Name communion breakfast of New York firemen launched into a spirited eulogy of Mayor "Jimmy'' Walker who was already in bad odor. Soon after, Patrick Cardinal Hayes ruled that no ecclesiastical visitor might address a religious gathering without the Cardinal's permission. Last fortnight the New York archdiocese felt no more kindly toward Father Coughlin when he hustled into Manhattan without bothering to go through the customary formality, as an outside priest, of obtaining permission to speak. Reading of his scheduled address in the newspapers, archdiocesan officials taxed him with...
...rubber had no odor, it might find profitable uses in milk cans, beer vats and food containers. Last week from London came news that two chemists of the Rubber Growers' Association had located and practically eliminated rubber's inherent smell...
...another pet controversy-this time over cats. Judge William Amos Smith, onetime Kansas attorney general and Supreme Court justice, has three children, seven cats. The children are all right with his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Archie Smith (no kin), but she objects decidedly to the cats. Protesting their "terrific odor," she lately went to the city commissioners. They decided to meet this issue squarely. In a stormy session they passed an ordinance forbidding Topekans to harbor more than five cats within 250 ft. of a dwelling. Fine for infraction...
...Harvard newly initiated has not shown the proper discretion as regards unknowing summer school belles. On the opening day four girls noticing the strange odor of melon went sniffing around Stoughton Hall until they traced the source to a half-empty bottle of Golden Wedding Rye. The four indignant maidens hastily disposed of the offending liquid. Either the whiskey was poor or lese there is something rotten in Pembroke, or perhaps Brown does not coach its women...
Boss McCooey takes a benignant interest in schools, got his sister Margaret on the Board of Superintendents. His espousal of Dr. Colligan did not immediately suit Manhattan editors, who would have preferred a college-trained executive with no odor of Tammany. But they accepted Dr. Colligan as a pleasant, straightforward, progressive pedagog who may, after all, be just the sort of president for a place like Hunter...