Word: odore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreadful. Miss Prior, who dismisses them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a "man-eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower on a South Pacific island which lured human victims inside its fragrant cavern, put them pleasantly to sleep, destroyed them with acid...
...sales manager and responsible to him for the success or failure of it, and I didn't have a reason for it. I went over to the factory one day . . . and when I got within three blocks of the factory it was very apparent to me the delicious odor and aroma of the tobacco as it passed through the toasting machines. ... I said to my father, 'There is something to that process and I cannot express it.' He says, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'He cooks it, cooks the tobacco.' My father...
...attacks on Hitler and Mussolini, his standing was ace high. They deplored his sneers at "Mahatma" Sinclair and his "Brainstorm Trust," reveled in his fury at Huey Long, cooled off again when he began taunting the New Deal about the "Second Louisiana Purchase." Today, "Old Peg" is in bad odor among the intellectuals because of his attacks on the C.I.O., his open redbaiting, his disrespect for Franklin Roosevelt- ''mama...
...funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer who, as he pours oil through the aft latrine, chatters away...
...Thomism does not "annihilate man before God" (as Barthianism does) but aims with an "integral" attitude to preserve man's dignity, incorporate the valuable elements of humanistic culture in a new Christian order. So far as the Church is concerned (and Maritain is at present in bad odor with some members of it because he favors "positive impartiality" in the Spanish war), he says: "Catholics are not Catholicism. The errors, apathies, shortcomings and slumbers of Catholics do not involve Catholicism. . . . Catholicism is not a religious party; it is religion, the only true religion, and it rejoices, without envy...