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...want your own ideas carried out. Here a true creation must be born with labour and pains ... to secure an impudent little lid either from the big popular store or the "Grande Modiste" needs a desperate tussle in a tropically-heated battle-room, heavy with a smell of stale scent and hot hard work . . . screaming like a jay amongst jays . . . still, for those who still care what they look like, it's worth...
...hospital cost more than $12,000,000 ($3,600,000 contributed by WPA), but so thriftily did Dr. D'Aunoy manage contracts that 30 FBI men, snooping from last June to January, could scent no trace of graft, a situation amazing in spoor-heavy Louisiana. Planted squarely between Tulane and Louisiana State University Medical School (built by Huey in a burst of rage against aristocratic Tulane), the hospital offers both schools equal laboratory and clinical facilities...
Otto Adolph Wittwer is not content with the way things are going. He has money, inherited from his Swiss immigrant parents. At 45, he has a nice little business of his own in Seattle, selling hair rinses and shampoo (which sweetly scent his two-story building). He is married to a beauteous exactress wife. Nevertheless, Mr. Wittwer is not content with the way things are going...
...theorists had become pragmatic, the practical were now willing to take a few theories. The scent of battle, and not a hopeless battle, brought Republicans together in Washington last week. To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt. The hungry guerrillas peered at Glenn Frank's battle-chart and sniffed...
...entire area becomes a sort of No Man's Land, with patrols on both sides operating through the valleys. The Germans never fail to send patrols nightly. They operate in groups of 40, preceded by highly trained dogs which come to a silent 'point' when they scent other...