Word: odorized
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...began to push open the door but stopped at a musty odor that came from the room. I put my face up to the edge of the door and listened...
...toit, terre, travail" (roof, land, work): "We help them, but only halfway, the other half coming from them." He thought it essential for women to find pride in keeping a clean house with curtains at the windows, and men in earning their own wages, before the "weight of the odor and the noise" of the D.P. camps would fall away, and settlers would be capable again of love and hope...
...movie (The Scent of Mystery), using the Smell-O-Visiqn-process developed by a Swiss chemist under contract to the late Mike Todd Sr. Nearest yet to the "feelie" film envisioned by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (see BOOKS), the process is triggered by soundtrack blips, which release odors through a maze of pipes to the audience-30 odors in 90 minutes for The Scent of Mystery, including flowers, roasting chestnuts, brandy, coffee, shoe polish (the villain will be trapped by smell clues). Mike Jr. will spend $1,000,000 (with United Artists) on shooting the film in highly...
...Supreme Symbol. The pervasive odor of human manure, the characteristic fragrance of Japan a decade ago, has all but disappeared. Today's farmers buy chemical fertilizers instead. In rice-rich Ichijo. almost all farmhouses now have tiled kitchens, running water and-as a supreme mark of gentility-neat, outdoor privies with trim red pillars...
...heavy fragrance of that well-known man-eating orchid, romanticism, hangs about the story from the start, but in the culminating scenes, translated almost literally from the page to the screen, the odor is cloying. On her deathbed the heroine pleads piteously, "You won't do our things with another girl, will you?" But she hastens to add, in the tone of a flapper who would not be caught dead with a conventional notion about sex, "I want you to have girls, though." He sobs, and she promises, with a ghastly smile, "I'll come and stay with...