Word: scenting
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...command performance," nearly half a century ago. Surely it was well played. William Faversham, 60, perhaps stung to effort by the recent and successful theatrical activities of his eldest son William Faversham Jr., gave an impeccable performance as Henry Beauclerc, the suave ambassador who, by sniffing the scent of a lady's handkerchief, regains important documents of state...
...drama. She could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer flowers filled her with longing, but her neighbor kept to himself. Adrienne tossed sleeplessly at night, traced listlessly the immutable pattern of her dull existence, suffered torments from her suspicious parent...
...Bogart's Knob, just before midnight, more than 100 blooded hounds pointed long noses into the crisp, still air, sniffed, caught the scent, were gone. At their head, gallantly leading his last hunt, ran "Old Limber," Uncle Alf's famous fox-follower, whose picture once adorned in Nashville the State Capitol's walls. Baying excitedly, their notes cutting through the silent woods, the dogs circled. They closed in, relentlessly, on their furry, red prey...
...That music lovers in Madison, Wis., have at last been afforded relief from the stench pervading recent concerts. Madison, it seems, having no adequate house for big musical events, is forced to use the agricultural school's stock pavilion where many a lowing cow has left behind a scent-trace of its blue-ribboned presence. Citizen C. H. L'Hommediue of the Floralo Incense Co. saved the situation last week by spraying the place with a special eucalyptus formula of his own so that an audience could sit in aesthetic repose through a concert by the Madison Civic...
...Reporter Moses Lamson was set upon Negro Crowe's scent. He used skullduggery and pipelines of sly information-police, stool pigeons, private detectives, Pullman porters, servants. . . . Shrewdly he asked the best catch-scamps -doctors-to watch for the villain. The quarry has cancer of the stomach (TIME, Feb. 20, MEDICINE...