Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actress Scott gives a graceful performance in the time-hallowed actors' feat of getting old convincingly. The acting performances in Cheers For Miss Bishop are smooth and polished all around. But the story is a" dull record punctuated with some vivid moments. It has at times the musty odor of a family album. It is authentic, but the breath of life...
...Please understand that I do not wish to imply that TIME is responsible for the stinking cesspool, but it does help pass the odor...
P.P.S. For the next few years I shall confine my reading to The Earthly Paradise, Maud and The Princess. They stink too but the odor is so, so pretty...
...month one of TIME'S correspondents who crossed the U. S. S. R. returning to the U. S. wrote: "Moscow was very much as it used to be. I smelled that the moment our plane had wheeled into the spacious airport. . . . The whole country has a distinct, fetid odor of its own. . . . People looked better fed than a few years ago, better clad (especially with regard to overcoats and footwear), and they seem to be a little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than in 1932, and street...
With as much awe as if they were at the Indianapolis race track, 2,500 spectators watched last week's championship race. Round & round the little "hot-irons" whirred-motors whining, sputtering, filling the air with the peculiar odor of burning castor oil, dear to the nose of every auto-racing fan. No one has yet been killed on a Tom Thumb speedway, but accidents are not infrequent. Excited spindizzies have been known to get their arms or legs fractured by a whizzing car; tires have blown off into judges' faces; many cars have blown...