Word: smells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense of smell is most sensitive where right or wrong is concerned and so I'll add an appreciative nose to your newsstand count of circulation by contributing a subscription to replace William J. Edwards. I suggest he subscribe to some fairy tale publications...
...last week under a Louisiana State law, drafted by Huey Long just before his death, making all RFC transactions with State banks a matter of public record. Confronted with positive evidence, RFC admitted the New Orleans deal, hastily announced sale of the newspaper bonds to Banker Davis. Quick to smell a rat was Delaware's Senator Daniel O. Hastings, who demanded a sweeping investigation of Paul Davis, his bank and RFC's interest in it. Said...
...Juliet, I think-and I started to read it, but it didn't make sense to me. One of my boys I named William Shakespeare- after me, not the play writer. I don't take much stock in names. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, as the fellow said...
...place, viewed from any angle... Feathery, faery dust... The cool kindliness of sheets; the rough make kiss of blankets... The feeling of work well done... An old Greek Vase... A young inexperienced waitress saying, "Yes, Sir"... The Yard just after dawn... Unpassioned beauty of a great machine... The good smell of old clothes and old books... A formal lecture well planned and well delivered...
Next week, when Father TIME counts the newsstand circulation noses he will find at least one missing whose sense of smell was too acute to miss a bit of sloppy or dishonest reporting...