Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comrades, Mme. Molotov became head of the Soviet perfume trust. Said she of her work: "My husband works on their souls, I on their faces." She put rouge and lipstick on the face of Russia's womanhood, filled Russia's air with the odor of cheap perfume. In the interest of cosmetics, she visited the U.S. in 1936, lunched with Mrs. Roosevelt, bought machinery...
Mosquitoes. A new mosquito repeller, more effective and four to six times as lasting as citronella, was announced by a group of chemists from hard-bitten New Jersey. A military secret known only as "Formula No. 612," it is an inexpensive, colorless liquid without unpleasant odor...
Around the Piccolo. Some pushers run establishments known as "tea pads." The tea pad may be anything from a rented room to a suite in a fashionable hotel. Usually it is dimly lighted with colored lamps and reeks of incense burned to cover the telltale, bonfire-like odor of burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe...
...studied further in Scotland and Germany. Back in the U.S. he went to Union, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1900. His first parish was a room over a Bronx fish market. There he preached "damnation with the Cross in it," displayed such zeal that his congregation vowed the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish...
...crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still see a few grey bones...