Word: scent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London's gossips were hot on the scent of a royal snub. "You notice the Duke of Gloucester wasn't there," said one. "And there wasn't a single member of the royal family in the wedding picture," added another, "except, of course, the Princess Royal, and she had to be-being the groom's mother." "Margaret didn't even bother to wear a new dress," sniffed a third, pointing out (correctly) that the Princess' grey lace had made its debut at Ascot a month before...
Eliot is no stranger to the Harvard scent. As recently as three years ago he gave a series of lectures in Sanders Theatre on the poet in the modern age. In the early 30's he was for one year the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Fragrant Jewelry. Scented synthetic pearls are being market tested in Sandefjord, Norway by Chemist Joseph Shott and Businessman Olav Edlund. The pearls, which are made from herring scales, are infused with perfume, and the scent lasts three years. Probable retail price in U.S. for a string...
...starter tapped her on the back, she was off, pushing furiously with her ski poles to gain the speed she would have to check, moments later, with a swivel-hip turn. She swept down the dizzying de scent with the verve and hell-for-leather dash of a man. Crouching, straightening, swinging her slim hips in an almost antic mimicry of a rumba step, she darted and danced through the multicolored flags that outlined the course...
...fired one of McGrath's top assistants, Theron Lamar Caudle, the influence-peddlers' buddy, without asking the advice of the Attorney General. Around the White House, there was talk that a vigilant Attorney General would have caught some of the wrongdoers before congressional committees got the scent. Last week Truman began casting around for a new Attorney General. His patronage assistant, Donald Dawson, sounded out Justin Miller, chairman of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, former federal judge, onetime dean of Duke University law school. This activity was reported on the nation's front pages...