Word: scent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People "determined to scent the putrid in literature...
...pigments, guarded and moulded by tender hands of many gardeners, paint the halls in contrasting colors, now gorgeous and vivid, now subtle and evasive. The full-blown ripeness of the rose, the sturdy primness of the sweet pea are ranged in harmonious array, mingling the emotions of night and scent in one silent pean to the advent of Spring...
...monster five and thirty reds from beak to tail, of a cerulean blue color, whose pinions when spread were as a flower garden for beauty, being all shades of emerald and assure, people and gold, and whose progress by land or air was always accompanied by the scent of lavender." Such was "The Lavender Dragon" as described by the frightened villagers of Eden Philpott's story to SFr Jasper and his squire as they set forth to slay the creature who had been carrying men, women, and children off to his lair...
Senator Moses, Republican: "Here we shall continue to find the partisan pack in full bay?Bess, Tray and Sweetheart?all hot upon the scent. Here, I suppose, we shall continue to see, and the country will not fail to take notice of, a proceeding in which we find sick chambers invaded by a jazz band, a ghoulish dance performed on a cemetery and partisan snipers making a rifle pit of the grave of Warren Harding...
Other papers, excited by the loud baying of the Tribune, took up the scent. The Sporting Editor of the Telegram (Manhattan) vaporized as follows: "He has insisted on doing work that required no thinking. Poor kid! His boyhood was burned up in thinking. That is all he has ever done, and now he wants a rest." The Sun and The Globe dug up a story about a girl: "As he talks to associates in radical circles Sidis sometimes takes Miss Foley's picture from his pocket and looks at it-and then he smiles...