Word: scent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Frank Murphy, an eager beagle who is all heart-and-snuffles whenever the legal hunt picks up the scent of something human, sniffed out a resemblance to portal-pay cases previously decided in favor of miners. As spokesman for a 5-2 majority he sent the case back to the lower court. Picard was ordered to decide whether workers' time between punching the time clock and starting work was a trifle (which could be ignored) or substantial (which must be paid for). And, in Justice Murphy's phrase, he was to do so "in light...
...continued reign of diluted pornography is even more incongruous in the light of the supposed power of the Watch and Ward in its fight against the spread of obscenity. Happy to take up the scent and go bugling off after a book like "Strange Fruit," or inflexible in their command that a singer stand ramrod stiff during a rendition of "A Huggin' an' A Chalkin'," they remain helpless while the newspapers go into a detailed analysis of the intricacies of an assault. However loud the moral societies complain about the quality of the Boston newspapers, they find that the city...
...perfume, and the picture of seduction at the piano [TIME, Nov. 25]. But what is going to happen now that Airwick, the total deodorant, is spending thousands too? . . . Will the moral turpitude curve show a downward trend when Airwick kills the high-priced and seductive smells distilled from the scent glands of the musk deer and the civet cat? Think on these things...
Seeping out of the cafeteria, permeating the peaceful scene, was the strong, vital scent of freshly cooked sauerkraut...
Upon his arrival in Boston, he quickly contacted Benjamin Draper, an executive of the textile company managed by West's father. Montreal authorities after speedy investigation established that the scent was false in a few hours...