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...same cannot always be said of the product brewed by his competitors. Says Fred Murrell of the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division: "We've found them making it in hog pens-harder for an agent to sniff it out that way. Sometimes there are rotted varmints in the shine. Why, the basic commodity is so raunchy, the public hasn't the foggiest idea how bad the stuff really is." However, moonshining is becoming less and less of a problem. In 1959 Government agents "cut" (smashed up) 9,225 stills; the number smashed dwindled...
...only person who has ever been asked to leave a Woolworth store because my autistic son started howling with fear when someone's dog came up to sniff him over. The dog was tolerated, but society is unable to accommodate this kind of misbehavior in public from a deviant human...
...world--even as small a part of it as Hollywood. The agonizing tension communicated by the old crusaders--Agee, MacDonald, Warshow--is now lacking. Since the educated came to recognize that talented men have already created lasting works of cinema art, it's become more acceptable to say, sniff, that Dreyer is a poet in light; or, sigh, that John Ford is the lyricist of the American past. Just sit back, go to sleep, and watch the once subversively free art form ossify for want of criticism which demands its best...
Before it becomes standard equipment, however, it will have to become more discriminating. It is so sensitive that even when a sober companion shifts a drunken driver to the back seat, it refuses to allow the motor to start; it can still sniff the drunk's breath. Still more embarrassing was the Sniffer's recent refusal to allow a sober woman to drive. The mechanism found her perfume intoxicating...
...than buy blue and white scarves (the official Yale Scarf, incidentally, is manufactured in Harvard Square), carve their initials into the tables down at Mory's, import girls for football weekends. Harvard was more worldly than that, initiating academic, political and social trends which Yale could only sniff at or copy (or both...