Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detroit has big hotels, a 17,000-seat auditorium, plenty of money and no looming Michigander, but Detroit has little political background or significance and is alleged by some to "smell of beer...
...smell of strong soap in the corridors . . . children yelping and running, like a pack of hounds, in the early morning . . . the grimy carboniferous smell of the class room . . . children whispering and scratching their pens as the sun swings a golden ruler through the chalk notes . . . bells ringing for recess . . . the musty smell of a class room after lunch with bits of greasy sandwich wrappings in the aisles . . . more bells and the shuffle of feet going downstairs . . . two ratty brats squirming at their desks, writing out "I must learn to be polite and not to pass notes" . . . through the hot passages...
...boisterousness. There is a composure which is almost marked enough to be termed bovine; there is content. The tramp of tens of thousands of shuffling feet, the clink of colas in the Salvation Army blanket, the dolorous wheeze of the organ man, the shouts of the game extras, the smell of popcorn and frankfurters--these are what the artist designates as local color. And the fact that the scene passes, not to be viewed again until another autumn makes it more impressive and more indelible...
...ward has the smell of soiled bandages, disinfectants and decay. It was opened in 1869 when New York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...
...merely a man whom life has defeated: he is a generalization, a symbol, an inclusion of defeat. After a day of selling his pencils to the faces behind back doors, he crawls into a cattle shed near a railroad station, to sleep there tasting the dark murmur and damp smell of cows. "First he had been a bound boy, then a hired man. He had had a room over kitchens. For a summer or two he had tramped it, and slept in groves or in straw piles or on the hay in barns. But this place here, with...