Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief visit to the U.S., Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (see INTERNATIONAL) got his first whiff of the ubiquitous U.S. columnists. As Montgomery sailed from Manhattan last week, ship newsmen asked him about Columnist Drew Pearson's story on Monty's conferences with U.S. Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and others. Pearson reported that Monty had urged Bradley to rearm Germany. Up went Monty's eyebrows. "What in the world is a columnist?" he asked in bewilderment. "How did he know that? ... I didn't know this chap was in the room...
While a higher gold price would probably have little effect on domestic prices, some thought that there was still a chance that it might give the U.S. another slight whiff of inflation. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, recently resigned member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, thought that "any tinkering with the dollar at this moment of delicate domestic and international adjustment would be one of the surest roads to demoralization and possible disaster...
...Bordeaux University, 70 prominent French doctors gathered last week to discuss the effects of wine on the human body. Inevitably, the conclusions were favorable to wine. The experts, calling themselves the "Doctor Friends of French Wines," banded together in the early 1930s to blow away a whiff of prohibition sentiment which wafted over France...
Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above...
Down to the Sea is no great picture, but it is tight enough at the seams to be seaworthy. Its big moments-notably the harpooning and the ship's tangle with an iceberg in the fog-have a fast-moving drive and conviction. Despite an occasional whiff of the studio, they have a real sea smell...