Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through dusty English newspaper files (1805-87), pasted her miscellaneous finds into this 650-page album, calls it "the autobiography of the 19th Century." Erudite historians may find nothing startling in News from the Past, but 20th Century readers, if they have not lost their sense of smell, will sniff its pages with delight...
When it came to a choice between reporting the London Economic Conference last year and going to Spain with three boon companions, Journalist Henry Major Tomlinson did not hesitate long. He went to Spain, with a backward skeptical sniff at the Conference's selfimportance. South to Cadiz is the record of his Spanish holiday, written in his familiar brow-wrinkled style, as if he had puffed it thoughtfully out of an old pipe stuffed with a shaggy mixture of Lamb, Stevenson and Conrad. A journalist to littérateurs, a littérateur to journalists, Author Tomlinson is pleasant...
Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon) is a dog fancier. He arrives in Egypt with two hungry Great Danes which sniff contemptuously around Director DeMille's lavish furnishings. With Antony, Cleopatra's technique is less subtle than with Caesar. She inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards...
...that nobody could hear what he said." A later meeting was delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw at us not onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks as well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor for Art's sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved by his version of the long-drawn-out suicide of Harry Crosby, whom...
...intelligent college girl seldom considers those courses-by-which-The-State-sets-such-store worth her while after a sniff or two at them-and the game not worth the candle. They are stupid and inane and consist mainly of "horse-sense" in which only an imbecile might need instruction...