Word: odore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...
Franklin Roosevelt, who has a long nasal memory, last week remembered an odor he had smelled 24 years ago when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The odor was Philadelphia...
...Oomph Girl's latest episode takes place in the lair of the Princeton Tiger, but like many of her cinema appearances, it has that faintly reminiscent "this-is-where-I-came-in" odor...
...TIME was a fine unbiased weekly condensation of the news to which I should have subscribed at twice the rate, but I wish to free my mailbox of that stable odor (not new-mown hay) which seeps from the pages of your new-deal TIME...
...small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...