Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee also upbraided the publishers of pocket books for putting out such "obscene" books as Marijuana Girl (Chapter II: how to "sniff the stuff"), Virgie Goodbye, Gin Wedding, Love-Hungry Doctor, Private Life of a Street Girl, She Made It Pay. Pocket-size reprints, the committee said, "originally started out as cheap reprints of standard works, have largely degenerated into a medium for the dissemination of artful appeals to sensuality, immorality, filth, perversion and degeneracy...
...this, the landlady complained, Rodger P. Stewart had been "haughty." He had told her, she said with a sniff, all sorts of tales: that he had been a handball champion between 1900 and 1910, that he had once run a sporting-goods business in Manhattan. Nevertheless, none of this had kept him from borrowing her radio, breaking it, and refusing to have it fixed...
...been surprised at the discovery of an eager sensual appetite within herself. It had been in hiding, apparently, for most of her life . . . and then one day it had appeared." "It was one of the few times he had met a woman who did not instantly flare her nostrils, sniff, and come bounding...
...Well, my dog was running before me and I saw him stop and sniff something light on the sand, and then he went off in pursuit of sea gulls. I found the object was a brown bottle . . . The cork . . . crumpled in my fingers. How the note kept dry, nobody can understand. It must have been because you mentioned God's name on it, and He brought it to safe harbor . . . I sat there on the beach and read...
...Meadows, is bounded by the ever dirty Hackensack River and two sloughy creeks. Most of its small, bedraggled residential section is huddled on a hill, which rises, like a precarious reef from a mounting sea, above a tide of pigs. The citizens of Secaucus on their hill rarely sniff the full exhalation of the piggeries; but the town's neighbors do, and so do millions of travelers who pass through by rail or over the New Jersey Turnpike. For years the authorities have tried to make New Jersey's Moonbeam a little daintier. Further expansion of pig farming...