Word: scent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven...
...Scent through the Mails. In Philadelphia, 60-year-old John Wagner was held for grand jury action despite his protest that livestock on his McClure, Pa. farm needed the garbage he had been mailing...
...Scent Test. The nose is no respecter of perfume price. Tests taken among students at the University of California showed that expensive brands ran about nose-&-nose with inexpensive. Another conclusion: after eight hours, there's no difference in lasting quality between expensive and inexpensive brands...
...Nary a Scent. In Dallas, Ore., Mrs. Sadie Reddekopp reported that the Christmas rush had cleaned out the stock of her odorless skunk farm...
...rainy day he told a guard, "I'm going home." The guard refused to believe him, laughed and called "Good luck!" as he walked away. Roy Hollis rode a log down a creek to throw hounds off the scent, headed for his mother's home in Rutledge...