Word: smells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considering three courses: They could move loud Crane Anson to a special pen further away from the apartment house; perform tonsilectomy on all the cranes; put all the cranes in the giraffe pen, move the giraffes, which, unable to make any sound with their mouths, sometimes have an unpleasant smell, nearer to Senator Costigan...
Then there this question of literature. There's "Vile Bodies" by Waugh, a book with the real smell of the earth in it. Or was it that Dam sun-like book about china? Amusing stuff, earth. Then there are post-war novels, thrilling they are, every hundred of them. Did Hemingway write "A Farewell to Arms" for nothing? Now there's a question. When America started there were people like Washington, Adams, and Jefferson around. Are they around now? Nope. Still, its pretty exciting...
...precious to ship operators was reported last week by Western Reserve University's Professor John Paul Visscher upon his return to Cleveland from two months among the Tortugas: barnacles, shellfish which attach themselves to ship hulls and thereby impede speed, have a sense akin to the sense of smell which makes them recoil from certain chemicals. Professor Visscher's intention is to mix a chemical of disagreeable, repellent smell into the hull paint, thus prevent barnacles clinging...
...Street reaches its noisiest, most ebullient phase after the dinner hour. Fat, oily women, some without shoes, rattle dirty dishes. Their men sit smoking in front of the Helmar Social Club. Their litters of children play and quarrel shrilly all through the street. Into this babble and filth and smell one evening last week came Terror...
...WITH OLD COLDS. "Open up a pack of Old Colds. . . . Smell the to- bacco. . . . You can't because there isn't any tobacco...