Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valued him at more than twice that amount. There would be the Overnight at Jamaica, a debut won as a whippet would win from airdales, the Keene Memorial and the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont, two races at Aqueduct-five golden afternoons, all full of sunshine and moving figures, the smell of grass and leather, the sound of cheers and hurrying hoofs...
...appeared as a best seller in the stalls people were a bit surprised. Here was a book that not only rivaled "Messer Marco Polo" on its own ground, so to speak, but had something else beside--a haunting something, intangible but with a sweet tang to it, like the smell of lavender or the earth after a rain. Now Donn Bryne appears once again--with "Brother Saul...
...wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell even more pungent than camphor balls...
TIME reported accurately that the smell of festering wounds suggested to famed Dr. Lister that carbolic acid might be applied to them as it was to sewage in Carlisle, England...
Last week in two Federal Courts, three U. S. Judges made rulings on the Prohibition law. In Chicago, Judges George T. Page and Albert B. Anderson of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that "nose evidence" is good evidence, that the mere smell of liquor in a restaurant is enough to cause that restaurant to be padlocked for a year. Law-abiding restaurant-keepers, must now employ detective- waiters to search customers for hip-flasks and hidden bottles before they serve them with cracked ice or ginger ale. Prohibition agents need no longer search and buy; they...