Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natures were aroused by old ladies or a glimpse of Shirley Temple. In Hide-Out, Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) is an even better example of the new school ne'er-do-well. All that it requires to transform him from a night-club chiseler to gentleman farmer is a whiff of Dutchess County applejack and five reels of Mau reen O'Sullivan...
...made his head contract pleasantly. Suddenly the Vagabond turned and frowned at the disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly grandeur to the shower...
...will not be waged or won; it will pass like a black cloud in the night, and both combatants will have ceased to exist. The powers of propaganda, organized industry, and science refine the fire of such combat to an intensity calculated to reduce the whole to a whiff of smoke and ashes. The largest nation left extant would be able to organize the world under one control, if it has been able to remain neutral. That this did not occur in the last "war" is due only to the fact that its battles, its slaughter, its campaigns were...
...Repeal meant to distillers. In Colorado and Nevada there was singing in the streets and free drinks in the bars. On the Manhattan Commodities Exchange silver jumped 3? an ounce. Mining stocks boomed on the New York Stock Exchange and the entire stock list zoomed upward at one more whiff of inflation...
...Stanford we are willing to withstand an occasional whiff of hot air, in order to have the privilege of letting the Wind of Freedom blow. --The Stanford Daily...