Word: smells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character thus introduced by Novelist Naipaul (rhymes with highball) belongs to that growing family of ex-colonial heroes who have their feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster's Dr. Aziz and Evelyn Waugh's Emperor Seth burned with a hard heathen shame, Ganesh shoulders the white-collar burden with the happy ease of a born...
...picture is drawn against the background of what must have been one of the strangest households in the world-young bodyguards filling sandbags and filing correspondence for revolution's exiled royalty. About the house in Coyoacán, six miles south of Mexico City, was the sour smell of defeat and the constant whine of grandiose self-justification...
...smell of an election year was in the air, and in the House of Commons frisky politicians responded to the scent. Debates became more edged, remarks more personal. In a week of such infighting, the Labor Opposition had a bad time...
Hopped Up. In West Hartford, Conn., after a traffic accident, Casimir Rosinski was booked because he smelled of drink, was acquitted when he said. "I always smell that way," told the jury he worked for the Ruppert brewery...
Whatever its shortcomings, Bird opened with the sweet smell of commercial success in its beak. The advance ticket sale reached $390,000, and the screen rights were sold to M-G-M for a sliding-scale sum that may reach $400,000. A long Broadway run was assured when the seven critics of the Manhattan dailies, seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came...