Word: odore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GOLD." He said that the Government was making great efforts to increase the cotton production of the Commonwealth, not only in the Sudan but in other British-African possessions and in India. He said that a Nation could prosper by the "smell of the market" and to make the odor appetizing he announced that he was setting up an inquiry "into conditions of industry, particularly with reference to the industries working for the export trade...
...hours, the body was in continuous session. Suddenly an odor was detected. It grew worse. Several Senators collapsed. The rest hurried from the Chamber. Janitors investigated and found out that a gas bomb had been planted behind the rostrum...
Rumors of Spanish political crises are as persistent as the odor of the onions named after the Iberian land. But Captain General Primo Rivera, "Spain's Mussolini," last week insisted that the inescapable effluvium savors not of crises but of peace, joy, contentment...
...received a good deal of his education in Germany and at the beginning of the War he fell into ill-odor on account of his pro-German sentiments. Not long ago he said: "The Germans are a great people, a tenacious, an industrious and indestructible people. I may claim to know them well. In England I am generally considered pro-German-and rightly so. My feelings toward Germany never have altered, and I never have concealed them. That is why I still am confident in her future. The Germans certainly are passing through a difficult period, but we in England...
...Brahms variations seemed very varied and very dull, inevitably recalling Huneker's simile of Brahms and the odor of new-mown...