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...Again, h-h-how?" questioned Professor Bell amid the hesitating start of a sneeze. Harold opened his mouth and sniff-sneezed. This was too much. "Have you a cold, Mr. Wilson? Or is there some pepper floating in the air?" At the end of an eternity the bell tolled four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

...husky, onetime Breton sailor, now 32, who has lived for ten years in one sixth-floor room at 5 Rue 'de Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without one sniff at an art school, Artist Tal-Coät has forged ahead slowly, was adjudged by Manhattaniles last week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: French Natural | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...Fine Republican weather," announced New York County's Republican Chairman Kenneth Simpson to a group of reporters at a Manhattan polling place at 5 o'clock one morning last week. Taking another sniff, he added: "Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tiger Skin | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...that when Director Ernst Lubitsch went there he could think of no better use for the many drawers of his huge, flat-top desk than to grow mushrooms in them. So he interlarded bricks of mushroom spawn and fresh horse manure in the drawers, drew many an inquisitive sniff from visitors but never produced a mushroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Snow Apples | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten him off, or should one lie log-still, in the hope that he will merely sniff and go on about his business? One of such opposite courses must be considerably healthier than the other. Seriously, TIME, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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