Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dickens are likely to hurry back to that author with a new understanding. Those who don't care about Dickens one way or the other will enjoy it purely as a movie. For Great Expectations is not, in any bad sense, a "classic"; it gives off no unpleasant odor of culture worship. A classic in the living sense of that abused word, it is a beautiful and satisfying movie...
...named M. F. Chapman brought eleven chinchillas to California where they became the progenitors of practically all U.S. chinchillas. They proved not excessively hard to raise. They live on cheap vegetables rather than expensive meat. Unlike mink, they do not tear one another to bits. They have no unpleasant odor nor do they bite the hand that feeds them. In their wild state, the males are monogamous; but on the fur ranch, they can be persuaded into polygamy. A female can produce three annual litters of one to five offspring...
...then, confusion, panic, A strange, asphyxiating odor swept through the courtyard. Frantic students, donning gas masks and air warden helmets, followed their noses to M-31, from whence the choking fumes emanated...
...refugees being sent back to Poland. The writer will sit in this room, lighted in a blue-greenish color. The room will be cold. We'll have Polish folks songs playing. On the screen will be a picture of refugees in a boxcar. There'll be an odor of garlic...
...hunters would have been content to catch three or four tarsiers. But Mindanao proved to be a happy hunting ground. The native system is to track through the jungle sniffing out the tarsiers by their musty odor. When the hunter shakes the trees, the tarsiers move on. When a sizable number have congregated in an isolated tree, the natives shinny up and grab them, knowing that tarsiers, like owls, cannot move around very efficiently in daylight...