Word: odore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitalism and to Imperialism, were alert. M. Herriot and the other Leagophiles began to wonder if British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden, who had been slated to preach to the League Council this week about Right & Justice, was not either duped or duping. Paris detected a nauseating odor of oil from the direction of London, and this perfectly suited strong-nosed Pierre Laval...
...French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that His Majesty's Government are not that sort of people. Few days later, when the odor of oil arose, it was like attar of roses in the black nostrils of peasant-born Pierre Laval...
...schoolteachers were promptly released and forgotten, but in Manhattan able Playwright Odets was boiling with vivid word-pictures: "The food at Tiscornia was a strange broth of malt and beans. The water had an odd odor. The beds had no mattresses and the bare springs dug into our backs. The crude actions of the Cuban Government and the American Embassy make clear the fear on their part of honest investigation. Ambassador Caffery has a heart of Sugar. Vice Consul Donald D. Edgar played both ends against the middle. He is a fish. I am a Liberal, not a Communist...
...Haggard maintained that the odors were due to particles of the vegetables or flecks of their essential oils sticking inside the mouth, especially to the rough base of the tongue. If that were so, he was reasonably sure that he could remove all offensive odors by gargling with a cheap deodorant like chloramine. Reason for Dr. Haggard's confidence: He had been ''able to remove quickly from the skin all trace of the odor from the discharge of a skunk (accidentally received) with the use of a strong suspension of chlorinated lime in water...
Four hours after eating a big slice of "an ordinary culinary onion of domestic growth, of medium size and fairly pungent.'' every quart of Dr. Haggard's breath contained one-billionth of an ounce of onion oil (allyl propyl disulfide). "The odor was still detectable by the sense of smell...