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Franklin Roosevelt, who has a long nasal memory, last week remembered an odor he had smelled 24 years ago when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The odor was Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Stinking | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...Oomph Girl's latest episode takes place in the lair of the Princeton Tiger, but like many of her cinema appearances, it has that faintly reminiscent "this-is-where-I-came-in" odor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNORIGINAL TIGER HONORS SHERIDAN | 10/15/1941 | See Source »

...TIME was a fine unbiased weekly condensation of the news to which I should have subscribed at twice the rate, but I wish to free my mailbox of that stable odor (not new-mown hay) which seeps from the pages of your new-deal TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Experiment in Communication | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Delivery. In Muskegon, Mich., Charlie Chin smelled an odor unlike a wet washing, scampered to the basement of his laundry, found himself knee deep in 1,600 gallons of fuel oil that a confused truckman had piped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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