Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the comic opera itself. There is no smell of camphor or mothballs about the stage, to be sure, but vivid visions of horse-cars, and bustles, and the Spanish War come to mind all the same. The gags are there to laugh at and undoubtedly present all the requisites of humor. At least they did thirty years ago. Yet if this is what the nineties found the height of the entertaining, it is not difficult to understand why the parents of today find it so hard to enjoy the ideas of the "present generation". But another thirty years...
...peculiarly appropriate that in this same speech he dismissed in a word the charge of his connection with the Lorimer Bank case as being like "sulphuretted hydrogen, leaving only a bad smell". Bad smells are not out of place in chaos. A bad smell together with complete indefiniteness furnish good backgrounds for a discussion of chaos. It is certainly true that Senator Wheeler's story has raised an unsavory smell; and equally true that the story and the smell were both current in the Middle West before Senator Wheeler gave them wider dirculation...
...express in music their less exalted passions and more vul- gar emotions. . . . He made possible such masterpieces of popular art as You Made Me Love You and That Old Black Mammy of Mine. The corrup- tion of the best too often becomes the worst; 'lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds...
Fortunately, the bombs did not explode until the President was 30 yards away; when they did, no one was hurt, but ... ah, the smell! Nearby spectators fled in wildest terror as the bombs alighted on the road. When the bombs exploded and the stink arose, they fled some more, their noses clamped securely between thumb and first finger. Finally, recovering from their consternation, they seized one of the bomb-throwers and, had it not been for the police, would have seriously damaged him. The other assailant escaped...
...captain; William Boyd, the sergeant; and Leyla Georgie, a newcomer, the girl. Mr. Wolheim has the toughest face in the American Theatre, the toughest part as Captain Flagg, and he blends them irresistibly. The remainder of the company seems a superb selection. The play with any other cast would smell too sweet...