Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a girl he used to send violets to. (Sniff! Sniff!) What was her name? "Roses are red, violets blue." (Sniiiiiff!) Not blue?purple?but very pleasant and sleep-provoking. Raquel Meller is standing on his nose singing to him, throwing violets all over his face. ... As the surgeon begins slicing him open he lies buried under a pile of sweet-scented violets...
...cherubic Hershey Trade Mark (see cut) had less reason than usual to symbolize smilingly Health, Purity and Nourishment. But there has been no gloom around the big, clean plant at Hershey, Pa. Those neighboring Mennonites who did not join the hegira to Brazil in 1928 still sniff the sweetish air, still curse their feeble appetites and mutter about "da chockle shtink" that permeates the neighborhood. Founder Milton Snavely Hershey, a ruddy-faced man of 74, still walks through his 50 acres of factory floor space, observing, commanding, happily nibbling. For while Hershey's sales have tapered, the prices...
...this week observed the first of the year's widely noted special sennights ?Narcotic Education Week. A very small percentage, so far, of the U. S. population sniff cocaine and heroin, inject morphine, or smoke hashish* or opium. But despite unreliable statistics it is certain that drug habits are increasing...
Ferocious Painted Tom-Cats Sirs: In Jan. 12 issue of TIME is an article headed "Poisoned Promenade," which tells of what a hard time the authorities are having in New York in trying to prevent the dogs from killing the shrubbery in Park Avenue as they "run, sniff and soon " up and down that fashionable thoroughfare. I had a somewhat similar experience with dogs killing the shrubbery in front of my house, after the telegraph poles and trees had been removed from the street. And I succeeded in breaking up the frolic, although I didn't have to resort...
...issue of TIME is an article headed "Poisoned Promenade," which tells of what a hard time the authorities are having in New York in trying to prevent the dogs from killing the shrubbery in Park Avenue as they "run, sniff and so on" up and down that fashionable thoroughfare...