Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion in Tribune Lawyer John Martineau who now jumped up in rebuttal to castigate the man who had bearded his boss. "A skunk never changes its spots either," reasoned Attorney Martineau, "nor its smell!" He went on to call Parker a long list of names beside which Parker's vituperation seemed pallid...
...main business of the board is, of course, the college, from a smell in Mallinkrodt to a Conant speech. Here is the long-sought occasion to fulminate against brother Hearst, to analyse Mr. Roosevelt and all his works, to dig into facts and comment, to carp and to command, to charge about the University with purpose or malice aforethought...
After an habitual smoker stops, says Dr. Dorsey, his senses of smell and taste become acute. Appetite shows marked improvement. "Nervous, undernourished young women in particular are sometimes seen to undergo a renaissance. . . . Likewise the tense, active, tired man often improves his state of health...
Most readers had heard of "fear-smell" before, accepted Author Terhune's dictum without question. But Dr. A. J. Reich of Manhattan wrote to the American Medical Association for confirmation. Last fortnight A. M. A. replied in its Journal that Mr. Terhune's "established scientific fact" was baseless. Fact was, said the Journal, that "many hundred times the normal output of epinephrine [adrenalin] may be injected intravenously in dogs, and man, in the presence of dogs, with the latter showing no 'hate' or 'contempt' detectable...
...breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...