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...runs best in what are called "The Shires"-Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Northamptonshire, where gently rolling hills make it easy to stay with the hounds and the humid air makes for good scent. One of the noblest of the Shires' hunts is the ancient Quorn. Its pack is descended from the third Baron Arundell's 17th Century foxhounds. Its M. F. H. is a deep-dyed foxhunting man, Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, late captain of the 17th Lancers and elder brother of the board chairman of Cantrell & Cochrane (ginger ale and soda water). Its subscribers are the heavy cream...
Observers wondered if the law would prevent a perfume advertiser from spraying his newspaper copy with scent, as did one enterprising perfumer nearly 20 years ago in Humboldt County, California. Copies of that edition of the Eureka Humboldt Standard reeked for months afterward...
...Wirt was the discovery that he was 60 years old, and that his young secretary had more to do with government than he had. . . . He was not going to let on how old he was, so he raised the hue and cry over brains, and it was a false scent, as the folks found out. It's not the professors that politicians are afraid of in Washington. It's the assistant professors...
Federal agents, kept off the trail by the pleadings of the elder Bremer, friend of President Roosevelt, began trying to pick up the cooling scent of the abductors. Within eight months, snatchers have made $300,000 out of St. Paul brewing families...
...Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba's 1,000 sailors in his pocket, fled to a Cuban gunboat in the harbor. A few amiable soldiers and civilians stood guard around President Hevia's palace. Getting the heavy scent of trouble, the ABC revolutionary society boys handed around a fresh shipment of guns. Two days after he had been sworn in, President Hevia suddenly sent his resignation, not to his father-in-law Supreme Court Justice Edelman who had administered the oath, but to Colonel Batista. Then he dropped...