Word: smells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spending most of his money never in the same place twice, but always within a well-defined perimeter so that by taking cross-bearings, police had a reasonably good idea that he was living in or near The Bronx. The toxicologist also found that the bills had a musty smell, guessed that they were being kept underground...
Each year, however, there are many persons who suspect that they smell a rat. This thought, which is largely inspired by the higher range of prices at the store, is raging at high heat this year as a price war seems ready to start in the Square. It is well to examine the setup before one adopts such an idea. Control of policy rats in the hands of the stockholders who include several graduates. These men receive no remuneration for their services. In addition there is an active board of directors, made up from members of the Faculty and undergraduate...
...scrutinize the morals of lawyers, accountants and special agents who argue tax cases before the Treasury Bar. He advised the conventionites to oust voluntarily from their association out-&-out crooks, over-sharp connivers and boasters of special influence. To hammer home a point that has made a bad smell in Washington for many a year, he sent to the Bar convention his youngish assistant general counsel, Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly to leave the cinema...
...into his intestines. This stricture caused food to remain unduly long in the stomach. The food fermented and formed, along with non-inflammable carbon dioxide, highly inflammable methane (which miners know as fire damp and farmers as marsh gas) and inflammable hydrogen disulfide, the gas which makes rotten eggs smell as they...