Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit, last week, men skated out with sticks and began to play hockey. Likewise, in Montreal, in Pittsburgh, in Ottawa and Toronto. Likewise, in Manhattan, when the smell of horses no longer pervaded Madison Square Garden, and likewise, after a suitable interval, in Chicago and Boston. Thus the professional hockey season began...
...lovely way the greatest of them all. No composer of the first rank has failed to surpass him in this way or that, but he stands above all of them as a contriver of sheer beauty, as a maker of music in the purest sense. There is no more smell of the lamp in his work than there is in the lyrics of Shakespeare. It is infinitely artless and spontaneous. But in its artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been...
When Japanese thought that they sensed in the air, last week, a prodigious, ghostly bustling, they knew quite well and rationally what they thought was happening, although they could neither feel, hear, see, taste or smell...
...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...
...Border, bitter battlegrounds of national elections, got its first smell of this year's political powder last week. Congressional primaries were held in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Wiseacres tried to foretell the number of Smith and Hoover votes the three states contain by comparing, this way and that, the democratic and republican votes cast. But only one thing of immediate significance occurred. That was in Tennessee, where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which...