Word: scent
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...little ditty, tenderly called "My June Girl," somewhere between the issue's covers, might well have been written in Tin Pan alley, or inserted in the humorous publication of Pomona college. It rather lacks Lampy's customary standard of dignity and originality and has an unpleasant scent of a very poor and backneyed lyric which has been written and rewritten for 10,009 popular pianos and pianolas...
...could effect the cancellation of Sinclair's lease, if they could prove that fraud entered into the making of the lease. Between the time the Senate quit investigating and the time the Cheyenne trial began, these two eminent lawyers picked up one significantly strong scent. They discovered that a U. S. combine had sold 33,333,333 barrels of oil to a Canadian oil company for $1.50 per barrel, that the Canadian company had resold the oil to another U. S. Company for $1.75 per barrel. Then, mysteriously, a man representing the Canadian company drew out $300,000 worth...
Those peripheral penmen whose noses are keen for "human interest", are finding the scent at Cleveland faint and cold. Kirby, cartoonist for the World, has vented his disappointment by picturing the typical defegate masquerading in mid-winter regalia and shivering against a background of icebergs, snow and aurora borealis...
People "determined to scent the putrid in literature...
...pigments, guarded and moulded by tender hands of many gardeners, paint the halls in contrasting colors, now gorgeous and vivid, now subtle and evasive. The full-blown ripeness of the rose, the sturdy primness of the sweet pea are ranged in harmonious array, mingling the emotions of night and scent in one silent pean to the advent of Spring...