Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into...
...Taste and Smell", Professor Boring, Emerson...
...Taste and Smell", Professor Boring, Emerson...
...mother visited relations. The relations' quarters were cramped; mother and daughter had to sleep together. Another house guest was a man, about whom was a distinctive odor-surely not the odor of sanctity, for the Child Ellen awoke one night to find the bedroom permeated with the smell of the man. This was Ellen's first experience in marital infidelity. In later years her experiences were not so vicarious...
...honey during the summer in Washington, into a box and, keeping them literally in the dark as to his nefarious intentions, allow them to hibernate trustfully, secure in the knowledge of work well-done. Then he will ship them to Australia where, when they are aroused, they will again smell summer and start to make more honey, under the impression, although unable to explain that tired feeling, that they have overslept and must hurry to overtake their work. When winter comes to Australia, the process will be reversed, and the brutally deluded insects will be rudely awakened to toil once...