Word: odore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, when Governor James Byrnes announced that his longtime friend, Donald Stuart Russell, would be the admiral's successor, the odor of politics arose again. But this time the scent was false. Students, alumni and facultymen had been consulted, and all had agreed that Russell was a good choice...
Snobs & Farm Girls. Stephen Crane struck the first modern note with tight-lipped stories that anticipated Hemingway and all the little Hemingways. Out West, Frank Norris and Jack London spoke up bluntly. Norris, remarks Critic Brooks, "had Zola's nose for the odor cf stale bedding and of creosote"; London wrote rowdy stories in which "one heard the perpetual crunch-crunch of bones...
...Republican machine in Philadelphia, which has been emitting a murky odor from its City Hall exhaust, had a new man at the wheel last week. With the machine's help, the Rev. Daniel Alfred Poling, 66, internationally known Baptist clergyman, newspaper columnist, editor and Christian Endeavor leader, won the Republican nomination for mayor...
...Westinghouse put on the market a tiny electric lamp (3½ watts) which destroys dampness, mildew, smoke, cooking and perspiration odors by "exploding" the odor molecules with ultraviolet radiations, liberating ozone. Westinghouse claims the lamp is thrice as powerful as the bigger ozone lamp it introduced in 1945. Price...
...post office felt that Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's mail-order books on home treatment for cancer, heart trouble, arthritis and hay fever had a faintly phony odor. Called on to show cause why his books should not be barred from the mails, the 82-year-old musclebuilder, now in California, said the challenge had made him "feel ten years younger...