Word: smells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesties' bedroom a bright and cheerful green. Characteristically, Wilhelm chanced to return, 48 hours before he was expected from the particular little journey which had given the Kaiserin this opportunity to please him. He returned in the night and with a sufficiently bad cold not to notice the smell of fresh paint. Flinging his clothes upon a chair in the anteroom, he donned his night garments, sat down for a moment upon another chair, slipped within the snowy Imperial sheets...
...board; a girl crouched against the balusters listening. The noise had been her own fault, but she was too bundled up to move altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding. Stealthily, with infinite precaution, she put out her foot and took another step...
...Seventh Heaven" wears well, and as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, how much sweeter, well what's in a name anyway...
...third printings. The titles of almost all are characteristically long and explanatory. One volume by George Chapman is entitled "A Justification of a Strange Action of Nero in Burying with Solemne Funerall One of the Cast Hayres of His Mistress Poppaea; Also a Just Reproof of a Romane Smell-Feast, Being the Fifth Satyre of Juvenall" Nicholas Breton is represented by one of his works published in 1612 which he titles "Pasquils Nightcap; or Antidote for the Head Ache...
...members of the crew squad, rowing on the machines in Newell Boat House early yesterday afternoon, were suddenly surprised by the smell of smoke apparently coming from the ceiling. When traced to its source the smoke was found in the Varsity room...