Word: odore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gypsy. When Ellen (Claiborne Foster) was ten years old, she and her mother visited relations. The relations' quarters were cramped; mother and daughter had to sleep together. Another house guest was a man, about whom was a distinctive odor-surely not the odor of sanctity, for the Child Ellen awoke one night to find the bedroom permeated with the smell of the man. This was Ellen's first experience in marital infidelity. In later years her experiences were not so vicarious...
...switch is thrown into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would...
Banana oil, so called because of its odor resembling bananas, is isoamyl acetate, prepared synthetically and not from bananas as you would have us believe in your article under Colombia, issue...
...class of people, and one class only for those in whose hearts lives the love of Christmas for its own sake. To those few who do not have this love, to those for whom the lighted shop windows decorated with holly and red ribbon hold no thrill, the pungent odor of the Christmas trees no memories, and the clear, sweet sound of the Christmas carols no dreams, these stories will mean little they will be merely well-written sentimentality...
...rats scuttled, in hidden places of the S. S. Steel Inventor, in last week from Brazil. Health inspectors were about to fumigate her. The crew fastened doors and hatches. All was quiet below. The boat rocked a little; chains scraped; water tattled against the hull. Then a sweetish odor came upon the hidden men, like the taste of peach stone kernels. Seven of them collapsed, limply, dead from the hydrocyanic acid gas used for the fumigation...