Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each doorway where an empty milk can was standing the goatherd stopped, milked a complacent nanny to the requisite amount, then passed on. Meanwhile the other goats foraged busily. The surprised detectives saw numbers of them make for the alley where stood the French and Spanish cinema billboards, sniff the Spanish posters suspiciously, then turn to the French and pulling the posters from the boards with sharp teeth, eat them with evident relish...
...When the master of ceremonies looks for Bessie Love he finds her in his change-pocket; a lilliputian Marion Davies appears with a chorus of giant Grenadiers, later grows up to normal size. During one of the color sequences there is a trick with perfume; the spectators sniff-is it possible?-yes, they smell orange blossoms. Gus Edwards sings "Lon Chancy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out;" Norma Shearer and John Gilbert put on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet; Marie Dressier sings and prances around. Sometimes slapstick turns into comedy, sometimes comedy trails...
...taxied 25 yards and his machine took the air. Beginning to climb at an angle of 30 degrees, he went upward at the rate of 3,000 ft. per minute. In four minutes he had climbed two miles. He took a sniff of his oxygen to keep his head clear. The climb became only 2,000 feet a minute. He climbed three, four, five, six miles. The engine began to slow down for lack of air. He turned on the super charger to increase air pressure in the carburetor...
...patronized by the Royal Family, was a "Public Inhalatorium." Poor persons with colds may pay tuppence (4¢) to sit in a large chamber inhaling beneficial gases. Individuals of the middle classes will doubtless choose to pay two shillings (48¢) for a booth in which they may sniff privately...
People who like to sniff the famed perfumes of FrançoisCoty will be glad to know that the paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick...