Word: odorized
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...that moment, he was about to do, the jury admitted when they handed in their decision, but the allegations he made against the dead architect at the trial, and which he repeats in this book, have never been conclusively proved. There is, as there was twenty years ago, an odor of truth about them; the passage of time has failed to make that odor more savory. Page 106 of Harry Thaw's book records, for instance, a boast of Mr. White's about 378 unfortunate girls, a story that most people have never cared to think about...
...poisons, as has been published, but merely something that the bootlegger can't take out of alcohol as he has learned to remove most of the poisons from the old denaturing formulae. They are seeking something which the ultimate consumer of the beverage will readily recognize from its odor and taste, so that he will know instantly that he is in possession of denatured alcohol...
Last fortnight Times readers were shocked. A complete reversal of policy was implicit in a small paragraph, conspicuously "boxed" (ruled off), which began appearing daily, signed-Oh, odor of the Follies, chewing-gum and the strident New York World!-by Funnyman Will Rogers, the prairie pantaloon, purveyor of bathos to Demos...
...woman standing on the shore. Would Mrs. McPherson come with her to see a dying baby? In a sedan parked by the shore, another woman sat holding a bundle baby-wise; she got into the car, a coat was thrown over her head, a sickly sweet odor sickened her. . . . She woke somewhere in a cot at dawn. Two men stood over her. One of them was named Steve. The woman's name was Rose. They told her that she could go free as soon as her mother (Mrs. Minnie Kennedy) or her congregation raised $500,000 ransom. . . . (Later version...
...best way to attempt to clear the American air of the odor of unfairness and smallness in racial questions is to bring those questions out where they can be best studied. But that the present time is one for the practice of unstudied attempts to go too directly toward a dimly conceived objective is certainly incredible...