Word: smelling
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...Grant does not describe the smell of Calcutta, the Indian habit of throwing garbage and excrement out of windows, the children running loose with smallpox nor the more or less constant state of semifamine in some sections. But his criticisms are grim enough...
Most U.S. dog tracks have a bad smell. Wonderland was no exception. Originally backed by Al Capone interests who knew how to get along with politicians, the track started out as a wonderful racket. Today, with respectable Boston names on its board of directors and a totalizator to compute and publicly quote the odds, there is no tampering with greyhounds, no back-room rigging of the payoff...
Scapegoats. In Rome, an announcer broadcast that the British had taken the Mediterranean isle of Linosa after fiercely defending goats fell asleep, had their throats cut by a limey midshipman who sneaked into their midst coated with a lotion that made him smell goaty...
...York, reported: "The greatest wartime grief of the town's exquisites is not the curtailment of moderate essentials of living like food and transport, but the complete disappearance from circulation of Floris's mouthwash, formerly imported from England! . . . There isn't a flagon of this choosy smell left on any chemist's shelf in town...
...Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) believed that society consists of an elite and a mass, the society's health depending on what he termed "The circulation of the elites." The elite must be "open"-must be able to expel Lions when Foxes are needed, must be able to smell out Foxes among the Rabbits and assimilate them into the elite. Such free circulation is a condition of intelligent government...