Word: scent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theory of those sponsoring the device is that temperature governs the rate at which organic substances deposited on the ground disperse as scent particles. If the ground is too cold, the rate is too slow for the keenest nose; if too warm, the scent is soon all gone. Best condition for a detectable but lingering scent seemed to be moderately warm soil with slightly cooler air above...
...runs best in what are called "The Shires"-Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Northamptonshire, where gently rolling hills make it easy to stay with the hounds and the humid air makes for good scent. One of the noblest of the Shires' hunts is the ancient Quorn. Its pack is descended from the third Baron Arundell's 17th Century foxhounds. Its M. F. H. is a deep-dyed foxhunting man, Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, late captain of the 17th Lancers and elder brother of the board chairman of Cantrell & Cochrane (ginger ale and soda water). Its subscribers are the heavy cream...
Observers wondered if the law would prevent a perfume advertiser from spraying his newspaper copy with scent, as did one enterprising perfumer nearly 20 years ago in Humboldt County, California. Copies of that edition of the Eureka Humboldt Standard reeked for months afterward...
...Wirt was the discovery that he was 60 years old, and that his young secretary had more to do with government than he had. . . . He was not going to let on how old he was, so he raised the hue and cry over brains, and it was a false scent, as the folks found out. It's not the professors that politicians are afraid of in Washington. It's the assistant professors...
Federal agents, kept off the trail by the pleadings of the elder Bremer, friend of President Roosevelt, began trying to pick up the cooling scent of the abductors. Within eight months, snatchers have made $300,000 out of St. Paul brewing families...