Word: odore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taste is a criterion impossible to apply, not only because good taste and public taste differ. Good taste is too evanescent; it is impossible to say offhand what is and is not in good taste. Furthermore, a great deal of the most offensive drama and literature breathes a vociferous odor of sanctity. The strength magazines, and the "art" magazines reek with it. The manager of "The Drag" says he would show the play in a church, and asks censors to point out exactly what is wrong. He is unanswerable. It is no more possible to say that "The Captive...
...present the goal-post gladiators are resting amid a fetid odor of five-cent Havanas. The matches, the spitoons, and all the accessories for a nicotine festival are at hand. All that is needed is the shipment of Corona Belvederes...
...that moment, he was about to do, the jury admitted when they handed in their decision, but the allegations he made against the dead architect at the trial, and which he repeats in this book, have never been conclusively proved. There is, as there was twenty years ago, an odor of truth about them; the passage of time has failed to make that odor more savory. Page 106 of Harry Thaw's book records, for instance, a boast of Mr. White's about 378 unfortunate girls, a story that most people have never cared to think about...
...poisons, as has been published, but merely something that the bootlegger can't take out of alcohol as he has learned to remove most of the poisons from the old denaturing formulae. They are seeking something which the ultimate consumer of the beverage will readily recognize from its odor and taste, so that he will know instantly that he is in possession of denatured alcohol...
Last fortnight Times readers were shocked. A complete reversal of policy was implicit in a small paragraph, conspicuously "boxed" (ruled off), which began appearing daily, signed-Oh, odor of the Follies, chewing-gum and the strident New York World!-by Funnyman Will Rogers, the prairie pantaloon, purveyor of bathos to Demos...