Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers and Sloan's Wake of the Ferry, gallery-goers could see how a whiff of spot-news training had led to fine art happily free of the musty brown academicism of the time...
Lloyd Tilgham Binford, dour, dogmatic chairman of the Memphis Board of Censors, has long prided himself on being able to whiff a movie innuendo or spot a suggestive line even before it is suggested. Since 1928, 76-year-old Mr. Binford has kept the Lower Chickasaw Bluff pure by dooming or doctoring many a movie...
...Eastern basketball stinks." Last week the nation got a deep whiff...
...detective story. They insist that since his last public appearance (1927) in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes has simply retired from his smoke-filled rooms at London's 2216 Baker Street to a bee farm in Sussex. At last week's dinner no whiff of Holmesian ritual was omitted. Holmesian pundits floored one another with complicated I.Q. tests based on the Master's "Sacred Writings," filled the air with erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason...
Oldtime Keystone Cop Eddie Cline, who directed The Ghost Catchers, had a bright idea too. Olsen & Johnson got their first whiff of it when they bounced onto the stage, discovered their 200 pals down front all reading newspapers and completely ignoring the show. A minute later chorines ran up & down the aisles shrieking, "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Read all about the Chaplin trial...