Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were few clearly marked trails. Outside of Congressman Martin Dies, who blazed away every time a bush shook, few saw any definite mark to aim at. But the Communists were like skunks: no one had to see them to know that they were there. Many a Congressman got a whiff. Democratic Leader McCormack announced before the Allis-Chalmers settlement: "We know that the Communists are in there working in Milwaukee." To OPM's angry William Knudsen, the important part of the Allis-Chalmers strike (in which he said 4,000,000 hours of time were lost) was "that...
...most U. S. cinemaddicts knew long ago, when a pretty poule (Mireille Balin) visits the Casbah, the whiff of outside air she brings is too strong for Pépé. But Duvivier never lets her intrusion sink his story into another formula triangle. The camera stays on Pépé, watches his mind squirm in its cage...
...directorate - bank, railroad or whatever - he has only to drop a light hint. Jones-trained employes are skilled hint-interpreters; the men he puts in office are expert hint-takers. For such reasons, underneath the success-story fragrance that surrounds the saga of Jesse Jones, there is still a whiff of old rancors, the skeletons of unforgiven deals, the shadows of shadowy doings. But in Houston, men say: "Well, we'd rather have Houston the way it is today, with all of Jesse's sharp goings-on, than no Jesse and no Houston." Jesse Jones operates...
Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
...Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff of ocean air. California rebuilt its breeding business into a $40,000,000-a-year industry...