Word: smelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stripped of rank and honors, and some 70 pounds lighter after four months in jail on unspecified charges, was recuperating in a clinic near Paris (see cut). His case had not been brought before any court, nor was it likely to be. "L'Affaire Passy" had begun to smell like "L'Affaire Dreyfus...
...salty tang and fishy smell of tiny Grande Rivière (pop. 992) on Quebec's rugged Gaspé coast, something new had been added: an air of progress and prosperity. It showed in little things: new rubber boots on the fishermen; gay colored raincoats on their wives & children. Fat bank accounts told more...
Field Marshal Viscount Harold Alexander, Governor General of Canada and leisure-hour painter, celebrated the joys of his hobby in the British Magazine. "As exciting as . . .hunting or stalking," said he. Among the high-ranking pleasures of oil paint: the "delicious smell." Confessed the Field Marshal: "I have fought many battles, and . . . generally been able to see. . . how the battle would develop, but when I am faced with a large white canvas. . . I suffer badly from...
...Laffmovie is one of those Washington Street theatres where small children climb all over you in the afternoon, and sailors and their girl-friends distract you in the evening. There is a soda-dispenser in the lobby and there is the sickening smell of popcorn pervading the establishment at all times. But despite it all, it manages to resurrect the Marx Brothers about every other week, and with plugs in your nose and blinkers on your eyes, they are well worth an hour of your Reading Period time...
...vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...