Word: smells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired, who has spent 42 of his 75 years at sea: "The sea is fine when viewed from the shore but I am unable to understand how men can slop around in small boats and like it better the wetter they get and the stronger they smell of fish. . . . I never liked going...
Said a judge in Crown Point: "This case is beginning to smell." The resignation of Sheriff Lillian Holley, from whose jail Dillinger escaped, was demanded by the county board which threatened to appeal to Governor McNutt if she refused. Democrats throughout Indiana feared that the public reaction to Dillinger's escape would cost their party a fat wad of votes in the next election. Ridicule, most dangerous of all political weapons, was already at work. A Captain of the State Police received a book entitled How to Be a Detective...
...himself by removing his prison clothes on top of the bus and substituting them for the suit of one of the passengers. On we go further west, and it is jealous Legs who first discovers that his rival is the convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer who admits defeat with a broad smile, and Porter gets a pardon...
...blow from his nightstick was the news he had to tell. All over the campus telephones were ringing. Students hurried from house to house. Soon all Dartmouth knew that, flowing from the broken furnace pipe, carbon monoxide gas had seeped through the Theta Chi house without sound or smell, brought Death to all nine sleepers...
...chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat of plaster on the scarified wall. Next morning a faint smell of new plaster was the lobby's only clue to the night's deed...