Word: smells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus he spoke and thus we answered." But in spite of all this, or very likely because of it, he has transcribed an altogether delightful account of this picturesque ramble. He insists, through blithe pages sprinkled with woodcuts and quiet humor, on sharing with his reader everything from the smell of quaint, stagecoachy old inns to a "stomach-ache acquired delightfully on Devon strawberries...
...girls whom he brings to heel he calls weeds, adding sardonic "ha-has" to show the kind of dog he is. This garden he cultivates with money, which ha describes as "a most powerful fertiliser," apparently forgetting that money has no smell. One of his mermaid myrmidons flees and takes shelter on the noble bosom of a rival rich man. When they return from their honeymoon, the villain hounds her at a dinner so that she misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along...
...English household)-permanently imbues them with the aura of a skunk. To inspire further jocularity, the men are compelled to wear diving suits to suppress the effluvia, while devoted friends visit them in gas masks. Eventually one of the men shoots himself, hounded to his grave by a smell...
...first vitamin ever to be lassoed and corralled has been isolated by Dr. Walter H. Eddy, Professor of Physiological Chemistry in Teachers' College, Columbia University. The nutrition experts have known a lot about vitamins for years, without being able to touch, taste, see, hear or smell them; some unfeeling sceptics have insinuated that it was all moonshine. But Dr. Eddy showed a group of his colleagues four test tubes containing 70 milligrams of a crystalline substance, Vitamine D, which he prefers to call by the name of "bios" first used by Professor Wildiers, of the University of Louvain, Belgium...
...have grown up in the shadow of Flaubert with his dull and unfortunate M. Bovary a race of writers who call themselves "realists." These Realists have much in common with our Imagist poets, especially in the common method of transcribing rather than transmuting whatever of sight or sound or smell comes to them through their senses. This photographic process, which eliminates the emotions and sympathies of the author, has at present the resource of shocking the public into buying. But as the stimulant grows stronger, its effects become less potent, and one day the revolution against Victorian sentiment and unexiting...