Word: smells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was his name. According to one story, which has the smell of truth, he was never christened Francis; his friends called him Francis for a nickname, as you might say "Frenchy" or "Frog," because of his madness for French poetry, French amour, French cooking. He could play the sackbut and he sang, in a voice not very even, but bright and moving, the songs of the trouvères. For the rest he was thin, fastidiously jeweled, ingenuous rather than witty, and supremely gay. His father, Pietro Bernardone, a substantial citizen, was banner-bearer of the guild...
...redoubtable Governors Ferguson (see p. 9) of Texas have solved the knotty problem of man's origin. They perceived that while "evolution" has become anathema among good Baptists, the same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it was decreed, and last week Manhattan publishers admitted, that biology textbooks, intended for use among God-fearing Texans, should refer to mankind's "development" and other phases of the ape-to-man theory should be toned down, by deletion or other euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text...
...turn of his head, as if to make sure that he hadn't got into the wrong flat, and in that glance he saw the letter on the varnished table. He read it and went into his room and shut the door. Pretty soon there was a new smell in the flat, the smell of gas, and then, a long while later, another smell still, fetid and dark, a breath from underground. The girl did not come back. Nobody came-for ten days...
...openhearted young New Englander, steeped in Vergil, enters their midst, to find that their innocent schemes range from curing the sick oaks of the Borghese Gardens and ridding the Sistine of a faint smell of drains, to catholicizing France and re-establishing the Bourbon monarchy. Moved, amused, half suspecting that he is among current incarnations of the Olympians, the young American constitutes himself their Mercury?messenger, confidant, historian?setting down their biographies and a few episodes...
...smell de blood from a Human Bing...