Word: scent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unaccountable fashion, the effort to save the daughter becomes the mainspring. There is a good, rugged detective, who is not entirely without intelligence, like most stage detectives and a fair share of off-stage ones, and the millionaire's secretary, who assists in throwing the audience onto the wrong scent, helped out by a somewhat sinister-looking man servant...
...attitude of the Berlin Government was given by a German politician : " If we hate a Frenchman because of the torture we have been forced to endure, we despise a Separatist ten times more. However, whenever we run into a secessionist we scent a Frenchman...
...fellow Negroes soon began to scent fraud, and a meeting of the Friends of Negro Freedom (August 6,1922) declared his schemes impracticable, and that he was secretly in sympathy with the Ku Klux Klan...
...three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...
...unlucky Senior learns, if he has followed this false scent, first, that the preparation for his Divisionals and the work of his courses come in unrelated fields; whereas, if he had left some of his Concentration until Senior year, at least a few of his courses would coincide with his special preparation, and strengthen him for the tests in May. Also, he suddenly remembers that a grade of A or B on those tests would excuse him from final examinations in all courses that lie in his field of Concentration. But if he is not taking courses in that field...