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...early usage commonly conveyed the meaning "to blow smoke upon (a person)." Words change over the centuries and no doubt it is now possible to funk an inanamiate object. Other meanings of funk (from the Latin, fumigare) are "to smoke (a pipe) 1704," and hence, "to cause an offensive smell." We have also the noun meaning "a strong smell or stink...
...touched the Cuban and stated that Prado had hit him without any provocation. He said that the Cubans had threatened him with violence at previous meetings. Prado, he said, had approached him in the lobby end "called me a few names. I was about to say, 'I can smell the liquor of your breath' when a blow hit my head...
...beatnik tights when alarm bells started to ring. In the ship's cinema, where Bob Hope was cavorting on the screen with Anita Ekberg in Call Me Bwana, the audience at first thought that the ringing bells were part of the film's plot. But the smell of smoke soon convinced them that something was amiss. Other passengers who had gone to bed early were not yet fully aware of the danger. No fire instructions were issued over the loudspeaker, and the alarm bells stopped ringing so quickly that many people thought it was only a drill...
...fact, one can almost smell Squire Western as Hugh Griffith plays him in the brimming and boisterous movie version of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. With his huge unsynchronized eyes and a face like a Sheffield hatchet, Griffith embodies magnificently one of Fielding's greatest complements to that category of human character that defies heaven and hell, having a kind of rampantly benevolent diabolism unique to the earth...
...blaze was apparently started by a cigarette left burning in the bedroom. The occupant of the room, Frank O'Toole '66, had left to study in the House library. O'Toole's roommate, Onwechekwa Okigwe '65, was studying in another room when the smell of smoke alerted him to the fire at 11:26 p.m. Okigwe quickly got a fire extinguisher, but professional help was summoned to finish...