Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group in Philadelphia to which I belonged, and which went by a title I consider a triumph of anticlimax - La Societe Gastronomique de Bryn Mawr ..." French Hunter's Dinner. "Don't be afraid of the lard. In the South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner it is used for the purpose of absorbing the odor of onions, mushrooms and celery with wonderful effect. Without the full half pound of lard the dinner is no good." Chess Cakes. "These are tasty morsels of early Americana, the recipe inherited...
...wend your way down Hanover street, passing peanut vendors and stumping missionaries, you'll notice something different in the air. It's apt to be the smell (ugh) coming from a dozen cheap bars, or the odor (delicious) issuing from the kitchen of the Old Venice Pizzeria. Few things about Hanover street are calculated to make the Dartmouth fugitive nostalgic. The Old Venice does it bit with cheese, tomatoes, clanti, and low prices...
...Lard. Big Mike had been in bad odor ever since his election last November; people just wouldn't take the trouble to understand him. He had gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
Though mosquitoologists have turned up many such fascinating tidbits, they have not yet found what attracts mosquitoes to their human victims. It is not sight, for mosquitoes are almost blind. It is not odor; no odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims...
...subtle and much-used trick is to neutralize an unpleasant odor. How this works is uncertain, but odor engineers have found many "odor pairs," i.e., smells that cancel each other. The smell of cedarwood, for instance, cancels the smell of rubber. Many offensive-smelling commodities are marketed at present with their natural odors neutralized by an odor antagonist...