Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's nearby mountains. Mountain-bred Swiss were flocking to the gently rolling hill country of Lake Constance. Once again, the great seasonal migration was on, and all over Europe indefatigable optimists were crossing and crisscrossing each other's paths in a brief, determined effort to sniff the green grass growing in somebody else's yard, for, as a sweating porter in Milan's grimy and teeming Central Station put it, "L'estate fa la follia" -Summertime makes for madness...
...Paris French art critics, who are inclined to sniff at American taste, were wide-eyed and rams last week over the collection of an American-and an American banker, at that. Hit of the Paris season is the Orangerie des Tuileries exhibit of a masterpiece-studded collection lent by Manhattan's Robert Lehman. Delighted Paris art lovers and tourists swarmed to the exhibit by the thousands; even the exhibition poster (see cut) became a collector's favorite. One French connoisseur was heard to exclaim, "We never dreamed that anybody in America had a collection so wonderful, so well...
...jury-trial gimmick, forced New York's Emanuel Celler and other advocates into an uncomfortable posture of constant defense. Between speeches they clapped friendly arms around Republican shoulders, added private pleas to public petitions in behalf of the amendment. When the Southerners hinted that they could sniff 240 votes in favor of their amendment, Administration forces were flabbergasted and alarmed...
Last week a record field, 69 spruced-up dogs from 16 states, came down to Maytag's 13,000-acre plantation near Union Springs. Ala. to sniff for the championship. Running in pairs, the dogs were judged on bird-finding skill, response to their handlers, and on two points that the experts agree are born instincts: pointing and ranging widely over the field. Many of the top dogs are able and willing to stay on point up to two hours and cover 15 miles during a 90-min. hunt...
...paid only £20 for his first book. He was immobilized by gout, but the fancy cooking of his wife, plain Jessie George, says Author Jean-Aubry in a very French aside, made things bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal pilot), but in the end his work was recognized for what it was?amid the sentimental afterglow of the Victorian Age, only he and Thomas Hardy spoke with the cold, severe voice of tragedy...