Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...weeks and months of frequent communion, are setting their mundane affairs in order. Three weeks hence, June 20-24, they will be assembled in Chicago and looped with the bonds of Catholic ceremony. Then will waft about the world, to the Pope willingly immured in Rome, a mighty odor of sanctity. It will be the greatest public demonstration of. faith ever witnessed by any religion. It will be the greatest concourse of the devout ever gathered in one community...
...christening was done by two local young women, Miss Genevieve Parker, champion dog team driver, and Mrs. Emma Delavergne, wife of the Mayor. A beribboned bottle was broken against the nose of each machine, but the bottle did not contain champagne, which is a lost word in Alaska. The odor that came from the ruck of glass and red, white and blue silk was the odor of aviation gasoline, raw and pungent...
Most of these houses had damp dark halls. The stairs and bannisters could not be trusted. No tollets or baths were to be found. There was a musty, pungent, unhealthy odor permeating the whole atmosphere...