Word: odorous
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Because nothing is too good for their children, a man and his wife have installed in their home a $30,000 Happy-life Electrodynamic Playroom. Through intricate projections, odor machines and so on, the room is capable of becoming any place on earth that the children want to visit, including every sort of hanging garden and bower of bliss in the bibliography of never-never lands. The children, deprived of human love by the machine substitute, elect a sterner environment. They turn the room into a dry and baking swatch of the African veldt. In the end, they lock their...
...Paris, Irish Novelist Honor Tracy's favorite smell is the musty odor of the Metro on rainy days; in Spain, she prefers the fragrance of open sewers. "A vision comes," she writes, "an enchanting still life of broken glass and pomegranate rinds with a dead rat floating in iridescent water, and beckons to me sweetly...
...problem is the odor of scandal and immorality many people think they perceive around the Johnson establishment. No doubt Johnson's action in the Bobby Baker case was at best moral laxness, at worst a willful moral error. No doubt the Walter Jenkins case demonstrates, at the least, an imperceptiveness on Johnson's part in judging people who work closely with him. No doubt he should speak as swiftly as possible, airing relevant facts before the public...
...odor, which is noticeable as far inland as Mass. Ave., is particularly bad in the Harvard area because the Charles is shallower there...
...Charles River, which never smells very well anyway, has a particularly bad odor this fall because of the drought, and will probably stay that way until the next big rain, according to Adam E. Sulesky, Director of the Sewerage Division of the Metropolitan District Commission...