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...their race was indeterminate but the uniform was that of our own men. When we tried to take hold of their arms and legs and lift them up and over into the boat, the skin would slip away in our hands. One of our boys was sick from the odor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHEN THE SEA SHALL GIVE UP HER DEAD. . | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...rips out a wailing snarl at nothing. Just before dawn they are awakened by the heartbroken sobbing of a woman, whom they cannot locate. And when they make friends with Stella (pretty newcomer Gail Russell), granddaughter of the man they bought the house from, candleflames wither, an odor of mimosa pervades the room, the young girl rushes out and is barely prevented from diving off a cliff. She cannot explain why. The answer, as Stella and the Fitzgeralds discover when they stage a seance, is that they are caught in the spectral cross fire of a pair of feuding nether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...Literary Rangers, they hinted they would do, attacked with a poison in the form of a colloidal suspension carried in an alcoholic medium. It has a faint odor of mustard gas; but that characteristic odor is masked by a heavy scent of Chanel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poon Prepares for Winter; Dons Warm Coat of Paint | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

...ward cars filled with . . . excited exclamations at sight of lighted street lamps along the highways. . . . Attendants came in with supper trays for the litter cases and the warm ward car filled with the odor of roast chicken and hot potatoes. A soldier grinned happily: 'Real American chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Coming Home | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Gannon: "Do you want to champion the rights of a people where different sexes do nude bathing together? . . . Mrs. Thayer, have you ever smelled the odor of a Jap home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquisition in Los Angeles | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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