Word: odore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While all copy is arranged as a page of cartoons, none of it is very comic. Some of it is not intended to be funny, but "adventurous"-stories about the girl who escapes the curse of perspiration odor; the boy who gets the Job because he has fed upon muscle-building cereals...
...frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses, bellowing of elephants, laughing of hyenas, screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke hung an odor as unmistakable as it is complex? acrid wild animal mixed with sawdust, hemp, tar, leather and gunpowder?the immemorial smell of Circus...
...good odor, one can smell her from far away; it is for this reason that there is fresh air out in the country. The mister cow is called a beef; he is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what she eats, she eats it twice, that is why she has always enough. When she is hungry she chews a cud and when she does not say anything, that is that her stomach is full of food...
Attempts to conceal suicides are quite frequent in a medical examiner's experience. In one case when entering the bed-room of a youth said by his sister to have died of heart trouble, Dr. Magrath noted the peculiar color of his ear. Although the room was free from odor, turning down the bed-clothes brought forth the smell of illuminating gas. An examination of the blood showed it to be of the bright magenta color peculiar to victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into...
...regards perfumed anesthetics (TIME, Feb. 22), the effects might not be as anticipated. Any scent, agreeable or otherwise, associated with an operation, would very likely be revolting if not nauseating, and the recovered patient very likely would abhor that odor for the remainder of his life. An anesthetic with no odor at all would probably be more agreeable...