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...promise that Connolly ignores is the third degree to which the "artist" is subjected today by lovers of the arts such as Connolly himself. A glaring spotlight, directed by dogmatic esthetes, assures the artist of his isolation and triumphantly detects his childhood scars and disfiguring pockmarks. Esthetic policemen suspiciously sniff his every breath and lay down chalk lines which they order him to follow; he is never released, only paroled. A similar attitude toward a baker would alone be enough to ruin any promise of good bread...
Scentinel. In Belfast, the Ministry of Food, distressed at the prospect of poultry being illegally shipped to England, engaged a bull terrier to sniff at all outgoing packages...
...first to sniff the air. Last winter a congressional Banking & Currency subcommittee looked into Lustron's deals and called for a full-dress investigation. To help launch the company, the subcommittee found, RFC had made the loan, although it had never been approved by the RFC's examiners, as is customary. An earlier loan for $32 to $52 million had been blocked by onetime RFC Director George Allen...
Wooden boat builders still sniff at steel hulls, claiming that they are noisier, hotter, and expensive to maintain. But Churchward says flatly...
...harvest continued at Grasse this week, the prospects of the French perfume trade were not as pretty as the blossoms. Of the many ingredients required to make men sniff with interest, the fields of Grasse produce only a few, and not enough of those. Citronella, civet, vetivert, santalol, ambergris, patchouli and a long list of other exotic products had to be imported from abroad, and they were still not arriving in France in anything like prewar quantities. Prices were staggering; a kilo (2.2 pounds) of musk is now 100,000 francs compared with 9,000 prewar...