Word: scenting
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...Joint Congressional Committee on Housing had padded from coast to coast, sniffing for the scent of a grey market in building materials. All over the country, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, vice chairman of the pack, had picked up signs of one Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities...
...Perkins has done many an odd chore. He has cleaned out elephant skulls and put them on exhibition, and removed the scent glands from skunks. In April, along with two Chicago newsmen, he hunted eels by flashlight in the open sewers of a southern Louisiana town. His wastebasket is the hollowed-out foot of an unmanageable elephant that was shot at the St. Louis...
...Remembrance. In Oakland, Calif., a tavern prowler plunged through a rosemary hedge and eluded his pursuers, was collared two blocks away when a cop sniffed the rosemary scent on his clothes...
Perfumers, brooding biologically, regret that more modern males do not use musky perfumes. Presumably, men are missing a bet, for nature intended the magic scent as something to drive females wild. If modern men could be convinced of this principle (as they were when Mohamed wrote of panting and of bliss) a great new market would boom the perfume industry. Chemists, to save the little male musk deer, would have to work harder and faster...
...film industry must itself raise the standard of film advertising. In most cases, cinema publicity is far more offensive than any film would dare to be. No sooner do Hollywood publicity departments concoct an advance campaign built about the usual theme, sex, than the self-chosen censors catch the scent, and like a pack of bewildered blood-hounds, bay along the trail straight into the press agent's trap. Some taste must be applied to film advertising if the scope of film censorship is not to grow. The motion picture industry must play a responsible role and clean up this...