Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rancid Odor. Bennett Clark began with the MacLeish prose. In his husky voice he read aloud from MacLeish's Preface to an American Manifesto: "The great American capitalist and his son and his daughter-in-law and his banking system might well have been chosen for hatefulness. ..." What, demanded the Senator, did that mean...
Senator Clark continued reading: " 'They have soaked themselves in the rancid odor of capitalistic stupidity and greed. . . .'" With a note of triumph in his voice, the Senator asked: "Mr. MacLeish, do you think you would be able to bear, with your sensitive nostrils, standing in the same room with Ed Stettinius, Will Clayton, Mr. Grew and people like that...
MacLeish: "I do not notice any giving-off of a rancid odor among those people...
...Translators. William Benjamin Smith, professor emeritus at Tulane, left the manuscript of this translation unrevised when he died ten years ago at 84. His friend, Walter Miller, now 80 and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, revised and finished it. An odor of honorable mustiness, of philology and old German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published...
Incensed. In Detroit, William R. Pace Jr. explained to a traffic-court judge that the smell of a peeled orange so outraged him that he stomped out of his girl's parlor to his car, later crashed blindly into a truck driven by one John Odor...