Word: reeked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ROAD MY BODY GOES-Clifford Gessler -Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.50). A tourist-free island of the South Seas described by a Honolulu newspaperman who spent a picturesque three months there, warns his readers away by saying the mosquitoes reek with elephantiasis germs...
...Reader's Digest and has since, in a reprint by Simon & Schuster (after screen re-enactment in The March of Time for last October), reached a circulation of three million copies. It does not venture to translate into pictures much of the lusty and horrifying blood-reek of the article, but it does present, within conventional limits, an energetic little sermon on good highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets Betty Winslow (Frances Drake) when she is arrested for driving 72 m.p.h. in a 30-m.p.h. zone. His efforts to educate...
...Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...
...lives of even Bengal Lancers are soon to reek of gasoline & grease, handsome young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had nevertheless done the best he could for his cavalry friends. He might have enlarged His Majesty's existing Tank Corps and other highly developed mechanized units gradually, while disbanding little by little the men on horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy...
...raindrops couching in cool flowers... High view towards Memorial Chapel from steps of Widener at noon... The caressing melancholy of a glowing fire on a rainy evening... The words: "So Red the Rose", Friend, Kindliness, Philosophy... A symphony concert in a large soft-toned hall, dimly lighted... The musty reek that lingers about dead leaves and last year's ferns... The epitaph: "Go tell the Spartans ye that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie"... View of John Weeks bridge from Duster at dusk... A little child relating a pleasant dream... A lovely girl in evening clothes...