Word: scented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried the peasant. "The gendarmes are after you! I tried to put them off the scent...
...scent of corruption growing stronger, the hounds of public conscience began to break loose with an increasing halloo. Church, Press and Business set up a tremendous hue & cry directed against the entire city adminis- tration, but particularly against its dapper little Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Public feeling, which had smiled tolerantly at his wisecracks and philandering, which had overlooked his do- nothing policy on the unified transit problem and Unemployment conference, now flared up at what appeared to be culpable laxity. The Society for the Prevention of Crime urged Governor Roosevelt to invoke a little-known section...
Rain and snow sifted down into the South last week. Through the rolling country around Holly Springs, Miss., the going was slow for bird dogs. The quail lay close and where they had fed out of cover the scent was washed away. Yet 27 coveys were found and Proctor, Wood-leigh's Roxie, Muscle Shoals Sam, Stoney Grove Bonny stood out well in the U. S. Field Trial Club's all-age stake-prelude to the national championships. this week on Hobart Ames's plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. Winner was Rex's Tarheelia, liver-&-white...
Chairman Simeon Davison Fess last week to scent another dark plot. Said he: "Some leading Republicans are beginning to believe there is some concerted effort on foot to use the stockmarket as a method of discrediting the Administration. Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops...
Should anyone scent something fishy about this sudden outburst of business optimism in the land of the cod where the Republican party fought its primary on the prohibition issue let him turn to the editorial page of the party journals in Boston. Prohibition is no longer the great question in the Massachusetts elections, these papers announce, and furthermore they caution that to vote a Democratic ticket on the Prohibition issue is to close the door in the face of on-coming good times...