Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, became vice president of the Home Insurance Company. The way it happened was that the company had found itself involved with Boss Pendergast in Missouri's fire insurance scandal. It needed someone like George to fan out the smoke and put Home Insurance back in good odor with Congress. George's job was Good Relations...
Lapham has restored the confidence of San Franciscans in city government. Handsome, black-bearded Eugene Schmitz left an odor behind him that 19 years of Rolph and twelve years of Florist Rossi, honest as they were, never quite dispelled. Even Lapham's loudest critics admit his courage and integrity, and agree that he has raised the mayoralty to a high plane. Lapham himself is waiting for the voters' decision on July 16 with considerable suspense. He takes pride in his job. He wants more than anything else to go on serving San Francisco until...
...Daily Express columnist (pen name: William Hickey) and leftist M.P., was excited too. Buchman, he protested in the House of Commons, was nothing but a "soapy racketeer who never repudiated his admiration for Hitler and Himmler." Before the war his MRA (Moral Re-Armament) had been surrounded by an odor other than that of sanctity. Buchman's preoccupation with "key men" was believed to have made Hitler desirable in his eyes...
...swirling fog held London in a clammy clasp last week, muffling its powerful pulsebeat to a mere mark-time. The air tasted vaguely sulphurous and had the faintest odor of wet ashes...
...Odor in Moscow. Soviet tempers and suspicions flared. The Russians did not see why Germany's welfare should be considered first, and reparations second. They understood Potsdam to mean: take anything out of Germany you need, then worry about how much the Germans will eat and see to it that they do not eat more than the rest of Europe...