Word: scented
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...world is the good reporter's hunting ground. No man can tell where a nose for news may pick up the scent. Stories may break in the White House, the Holland tunnel, the Balkans, the South Pole. Number 10 Downing Street, or 1913 Central Avenue, South Bend...
...want your own ideas carried out. Here a true creation must be born with labour and pains ... to secure an impudent little lid either from the big popular store or the "Grande Modiste" needs a desperate tussle in a tropically-heated battle-room, heavy with a smell of stale scent and hot hard work . . . screaming like a jay amongst jays . . . still, for those who still care what they look like, it's worth...
FANDANGO-Robed Briffault-Scribner's ($2.50). Because a few years ago many reviewers would not call a rotten book rotten-or couldn't get the scent-if its politics were Left, Anthropologist Robert Briffault developed an extraordinary reputation through his first novel, Europa, scarcely diminished it with Europa in Limbo. Robert Forsythe wrote of him, in New Masses: "I not only consider him the most brilliant writer in the English language today but by long odds the most learned and profound man of our time." Briffault's third novel, Fandango, is shorter and a little less pretentious...
...hospital cost more than $12,000,000 ($3,600,000 contributed by WPA), but so thriftily did Dr. D'Aunoy manage contracts that 30 FBI men, snooping from last June to January, could scent no trace of graft, a situation amazing in spoor-heavy Louisiana. Planted squarely between Tulane and Louisiana State University Medical School (built by Huey in a burst of rage against aristocratic Tulane), the hospital offers both schools equal laboratory and clinical facilities...
Otto Adolph Wittwer is not content with the way things are going. He has money, inherited from his Swiss immigrant parents. At 45, he has a nice little business of his own in Seattle, selling hair rinses and shampoo (which sweetly scent his two-story building). He is married to a beauteous exactress wife. Nevertheless, Mr. Wittwer is not content with the way things are going...