Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liquor, is capable of causing birth defects in chicks and rats. Studies of the fetuses of alcoholic mothers also reveal that ethanol easily crosses the placenta from mother to child. Smith reports that the amniotic fluid that had surrounded one of the babies he examined had a definite odor of ethanol. A second baby born to an alcoholic mother emerged from the womb with the smell of ethanol on his breath. A third was in even worse shape. At birth, his blood contained an ethanol level of 150 milligrams per 100 milliliters. An adult with the same alcohol level...
...pervading aura of manure seemed to guard the show grounds protectively, beckoning those familiar with its odor to come inside but warding off those not accustomed to it. I likened it to some delicacy peculiarly palatable to high society and rather than show my colors. I spent the day sniffing away as though I were savoring the bouquet of a fine brandy...
After the last jump had been cleared and Sunday's addition to the 35,000 people turnout began filtering out of the polo grounds, I noticed the previously repugnant odor was not nearly as noticeable. Nor did I look with disdain at the gentleman, who with a most affected-sounding English accent said, "Say that was jolly good fun now, wasn't it?" Jolly good indeed...
...rest, O'Horgan simply grubs around in his museum of Halloweens Past and bemuses the audience with such papier-mäché wonders as a huge walking dental plate. The faggy odor of the show may be sniffed at its gamiest in a Beef Trust chorus-girl number featuring women padded out with lardy stomachs and grossly enlarged behinds...
...most remarkable scene in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution reunites Holmes with the fine nose of the hound Toby, but the scent they are following is not the foul musk of creosote, that criminal excrescence from The Sign of the Four, but the rather innocuous odor of a man who is steeped to the ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson...