Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...39th Street berated old Miss Wendel, the recluse who lived with her maiden sisters in the big brick house on Fifth Avenue, for bringing her elderly poodle over to Park Avenue for airings when she had a perfectly good yard of her own in which it could run, sniff...
...true, but life is sweeter than freedom. Yet last week came news that not even apartment house walls are safe, that a dog's life between 70th and 85th Streets, not only on Park Avenue but on lowly Madison and lowlier Lexington, may be in danger at every sniff. To discourage dogs from smelling at doors and house corners, people have been sprinkling nose-outraging powders. Evidently some of this powder has contained arsenic. Several dogs have been sick. One dog died in convulsions...
...windows tight shut night & day. This shaggy old Foreign Minister Aristide Briand has done for more than a month. His bachelor bedroom is in the Foreign Office. He could slip down for the hour or two of work a day permitted by his doctors without breathing a single sniff of possibly deadly fresh air. In this manner the greatest living Frenchman fought bronchitis and won, emerged in palpably good health last week to face his enemies as the Chamber of Deputies convened for its short, pre-Christmas session...
...which Judge von Stephanitz designated at Madison as best-of-breed (and by this judgment, style-setter for 1930) : Champion Utz von Haus Schutting of Mardex Kennels, Ardsley, N. Y. Champion Utz is a long, low, dark dog with powerful forequarters, splendid. It was a friendly sniff which Champion Utz gave his judge. He had smelled him before, last year in Germany, when Judge von Stephanitz once before pronounced him seiger...
...juicy a scandal as I'Affaire Koutiepoff could not be laid on the shelf without a sniff and a playful poke from that irrpressible gourmet, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the flamboyant Royalist sheet Action Française. "Mark my words!" he wrote. ''War will come of this in a few months...