Word: scenting
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Alert, employes of the Department of Agriculture scent after those scamps, the adulterers of food and drug products, rejoice to waylay those who tamper with comestibles or medicaments. In this sense, last week, Acting Secretary Charles Frederick Marvin was pleased to expose his judgments upon 50 violations of the Food and Drugs Act. Walnuts, 29 bags, were condemned because they contained "filthy, decomposed and putrid animal substance." An Oklahoma shipment of eggs showed "71.1% inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed rots, spot rots, blood rings and moldy eggs." There was no potency in "Womanette . . . emphatically the Woman...
...would the opera be? Dame Nellie held long council with her memories. La Bohème was good. It stood for a hundred triumphs, for gay, gay Monte Carlo and her début there a quarter of a century ago, for Russian Grand Dukes and Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black...
...Hoffman in Steinway's dignified, colorful series; outshone Vladimir de Pachmann's long letter?"Through you I live forever!"?to the AutoPneumatic Action Co. (Welte-Mignon pianos); even Countess Starzynska's pearl-festooned pose in a Patou gown; even the fact that Rigaud perfume was used to scent the house at Consuelo Vanderbilt's wedding; even Mrs. Oliver Harriman's frosty elegance of face and phrase in the Willys-Knight reminders; even Prince Luis de Bourbon's witty crack in the new and aristocratic American Tobacco Co. series: "When do you feel like a prince? Smoking a Melachrino...
Cynic, as anyone knows who has taken Philosophy A, and everyone knows who has taken Greek, is a polite name for the canine minded. For only a dog can keep his nose so close to the scent that he does not in some fashion appreciate sunset and saints and symbols. But in spite of the bad lineage which this word must admit, it still remains popular, not alone at tea parties where to be a cynic is to be lionized, but even in Harvard Yard, where to be a cynic is to be quite de rigeur...
...doing it they have inserted no forced plot to carry the audience off on a false scent. Usually plot is an excellent thing in itself for it makes up for any deficiencies of setting. But where atmosphere and setting are sufficiently powerful to reach the imagination of the audience, then it is better to tell the tale without flourishes. "Moana" gives each person in the audience a chance to slip down in his chair and dream his own dreams, with Polynesia unrolling a fairy land before his eyes...