Word: odore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers noted that Japan's Shidehara had thus completely boxed the diplomatic compass, done all an able diplomat could to create an odor of sanctity, yet had left Japan free to take full advantage of whatever situation her militarists are able to develop in Manchuria...
Bernarr Macfadden, 63, who started life as a puny Missouri hillbilly, who made himself into a professional strongman and later a millionaire publisher on the body-love theme, last week arranged to perpetuate his fame and elevate his prestige. Even as John D. Rockefeller improved the odor of his oil millions by establishing the Rockefeller Foundation for medical research, so Mr. Macfadden decided to exalt physical culture by establishing a Bernarr Macfadden Foundation. The endowment : $5,000,000 interest in Macfadden real estate and publications {Physical Culture Magazine which has currently become dignified- TIME, Sept. 21; Liberty, True Story...
...odor of sanctity 110 years ago died Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bayley ("Mother") Seton. Born in 1774 into an aristocratic Anglican family of New York, she married William Magee Seton, shipping merchant, bore him five children. Not for long was her married life happy: financial misfortune and illness came to her husband and in 1803 she took him, ailing with tuberculosis, to Leghorn, Italy. He died in a few weeks and thereafter her faith, already strong, turned increasingly toward Catholicism. She returned to the U. S. and despite family opposition embraced the faith in 1805. She wished to join with Catholic...
...interdigital folds, the nails. The feet and hands are the most common sites of infection. Small blisters form and the skin erodes. W. F. Young Inc. of Springfield, Mass., makers of the proprietary germicide Absorbine Jr., taking a lesson from Listerine's Halitosis and Life Buoy Soap's Body Odor, have for the sake of advertising and popular education been translating tinea or ringworm as Athlete's Foot...
...annual police parade. Bands played "Ninetynine Out of a Hundred Wanna Be Loved"; rookies strode along in light blue bathing suit tops; the May sun glinted on the flanks of horses, on fixed bayonets, trench helmets, machine guns. Watching the show, New York Citizens quite forgot the bad odor in which the paraders had been since Referee Samuel Seabury began his police and judiciary investigation last winter (TIME, Dec. 29, et seq.). But it was not only the parade which caused New Yorkers to undergo a change of heart about their police. Two days prior had taken place a front...