Word: scent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author, with the assistance of Esther Smith; produced by José Ferrer), on the stage, as in book form, pulls no sociological punches. But the play lacks dramatic punch. A fledgling Broadway playwright, Lillian Smith too often wobbles in her storytelling, too often fails to pick up the dramatic scent. An unconverted novelist, she has gamely but unwisely tried to transfer to the stage the whole life of a Georgia town. The result is far less spacious than sprawling...
...good Prince had possessed the keen scent of an avid slot-machine addict he would have been disturbed way back in 1933 - for I still recall as my most embarrassing moment standing at the cashier's window requesting change of a 10-franc note for my father who, though not the least interested in gambling, had discovered a dusty old slot machine in a forsaken corner of the famous Casino. I changed the lowly 10-franc note and Father broke the slot machine. Really...
...picked up the scent of C. B. Wiren, Rob Rollain, Randy Phillips, D. Williams, and Ben Nielsen last weeks playing the role of spenders and the mancers in many of the Hub's finer night spots. Finest, they agree, of the traveled fun spots was the Statler officer's dance, where Phillips retained the "best" honors in the "Ham" department by leading a little dance riot. Sue be liked stompin' at the Savoy...
...fastidious Caruso, who bathed twice daily and sprayed himself and his surroundings with verbena scent, said of a not-so-fastidious diva: "Ai me! It is terrible to sing with one who does not bathe, but to be emotionated over one who breathes garlic is impossible. I hope the public observe not my lack of feeling...
Scottish veterans of far-off El Alamein heard it in the whine of shells, and they skirled bagpipes and sang Annie Laurie as they crossed the Rhine. Canadians who remembered their dead at Dieppe could scent victory in the smoke. U.S. doughboys, who had learned bitterly before the Roer and in the Ardennes that pessimism could also be a virtue, spilled out of the Navy's inland fleet (see below) with more than usual speed. There was confident enthusiasm now in the workmanlike way they went about their jobs...