Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sells. ... I am here primarily to learn rather than to teach. ... I am not a dirt farmer nor a pictorial farmer." He recalled Mr. Dawes' suggestion for a com mission to investigate and recommend remedies. "It has not even the merit of novelty!" he exclaimed. "I can smell the moth balls now." He concluded: "We undertake: "To adopt an international policy of such cooperation as will reestablish the farmer's export market by restoring the industrial balance in Europe. . . . "To adjust the tariff so that the farmer and all classes can buy again in a competitive market...
...their truceless wars and come down by night to drink from the river-pools under the swinging constellations of the Cross- constellations that see, here and there, man's fugitive campfires, how dwarfed in that illimitable waste! Reading, one can almost detect an odor, acrid, animal, exciting -the smell of Africa...
...nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend upon them. Rawley indulges in the first three and then loses his unpleasant self in the ample countryside. Janet and Antrim stagger home, black-lipped and full of British guilt. After the decent British interval, they marry. A ghostly negroid smell haunts them nightly, requiring Antrim's return to Africa to lay the ghost of Dingaan, a black he sent to find the strayed Rawley. Two skeletons come to light in an abandoned game-pit, clearing Dingaan of a murder he might pardonably have committeed...
...ghostly negroid smell...
...audience by referring to "COTTON: SUDANESE WHITE GOLD." He said that the Government was making great efforts to increase the cotton production of the Commonwealth, not only in the Sudan but in other British-African possessions and in India. He said that a Nation could prosper by the "smell of the market" and to make the odor appetizing he announced that he was setting up an inquiry "into conditions of industry, particularly with reference to the industries working for the export trade...