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...scent of grease paint proves much stronger than the smell of cordite. All the fog of war cannot hide the writing and acting shortcomings in the characters of the picture's command-weary captain (David Brian) and his young platoon leader (John Agar). Unlike Battleground, which it most resembles, Breakthrough makes no bones about recruiting its soldiers from Central Casting and assigning them to spell the carnage with a few vaudeville turns. One infantryman is a vaudevillian who does imitations of movie stars; another is a musclebound health faddist whose casual rejection of a man-eating mademoiselle...
...hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...
...judges, always in full pursuit of the pack, the weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...
...traits the judges sought were hunting ability (eagerness to pick up the trail); trailing, once the scent had been found; speed, drive and endurance which sometimes call for a hound to cover 35 miles in a five-hour test. By the third day of the meeting the judges had eliminated all but 100 hounds. Of these, two hounds seemed head & shoulders above the pack: Meggs White Girl, owned by Farmer J. W. Meggs of Marshville, N.C., and Dr. Luke, owned by Farmer R. B. Murphy of Bahama...
Other species are not so easy to please. Some demand deep privacy, or trees to climb, or earth to dig in, before they feel "at home." Some have peculiar demands. For instance, the slow loris (a primitive primate) marks out its territory, as many animals do, by the scent of its urine. So every time its cage is cleaned, the loris feels dispossessed. It "has to drink incredible quantities of water straight away," says Dr. Hediger, "and sprinkle the nice clean floor systematically just like a watering cart...