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...Amer. Smelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Adjectives Squandered | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Corporation of Harvard College and a prosperous Boston lawyer. Once, when he failed to appear at a session of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, a judge sent a man down to the sea to find him. Mr. Adams sent back the following message: "Can't come, Judge, smelt running like thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Spain | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...received the pregnant reply: ' 'Cos one does the same thing every day'; and at the age of 23 Mary was still resenting repetition. Only more so, because life had become more busily full of dreary tidyings and cleanlinesses, of washings up and washings down, of moments that smelt of yellow soap, and tea leaves and paraffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figures of Turf | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Long, long before we reached the camel compound we smelt not All that Mr. Kipling said regarding the festive "Oont" is quite true, but he didn't say half enough; he was writing for publication. Any animal that crunches the tough, green, desert, cactus, which bears hard, white spines two inches long, and enjoys it, doesn't deserve to be classed as an animal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumnus Tells of Raids, Escapes, and Revelry in the Sahara Desert | 1/8/1927 | See Source »

...spirit control. Although "Walter" died without leaving any finger prints to use as comparison the marks are undoubtedly authentic, according to Dr. Crandon, the husband of the psychic lady. At the same time, he says, was heard the ticking of a celestial clock, and perfume, from heavenly sources, was smelt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STALE MAGIC | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

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