Word: odorized
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...preparing to paw over that contract from hell to breakfast, make every political advantage of it and torment your next two years in the White House. Although many of the things [the Democrats] said about Dixon-Yates were untrue, enough was true to give the deal an unpleasant odor the public does not like-and an odor that ought not to be associated with your administration. You were absolutely sound on your approach to a problem. The taxpayer-subsidized TVA was peddling electricity at rates which couldn't be approached where consumers are charged what electricity actually costs when...
...smile includes the romantic tragedy he also knows to be an absurdity, and yet he cannot resist spraying it all with an almost cloying odor of Victor Hugo No. 5. But in an instant Ophuls will catch himself up with a comic grimace. There are vignettes of "le hunting,'' of an English youth on the grand tour, of an aged nymph at a ball, that almost break up the show with guffaws. Not to forget some wickedly amusing lines-e.g., "A woman can refuse jewels she hasn't seen," says the count's petite amie...
...Diaspora is refreshing after nothing. There is a point here, a trace of something that does not stink, a sort of negative odor that puts it above Spades." There are people who love a country, and they find it stricken, and there is a girl whose love is wider than a country. It is good that the authoress loves the country of which she writes, but there is a vapid, too-plaintive air that distracts the sympathy of the reader. "If you were born in Israel, you were a sabra, tough and tan on the outside, sweating...
...comfortable. Most of the men, however, live in barracks--wooden structures put up temporarily after the war and never replaced. The science building is very fine, but the old structure where most of the classes are held and where most administration offices are located is horrible. An offensive odor pervades the place and the stairs creak menacingly. The theatre is miniscule and looks to be falling apart. By far the finest looking building is rarely used. The magnificent Zabriskie Estate manor house, "Blithewood," overlooking the Hudson, is used occasionally for conferences and dances, but stands idle most of the time...
...continued with Rock Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor of their cargo ("Mellow, eh fellow . . . Real mellow, fellow"), their talk seems the bonus catch in Author Conrad...