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...when it would be far easier to go under? And how do they know where their breeding ground is? They seem to follow no particular leader, nor do they travel in processions or with any apparent system whatsoever. To find out whether they might be following their sense of smell, the boys smeared the toads' nostrils with Vaseline, but the uncooperative toads promptly wiped...
Like the New York subway system-which it rivals in overcrowding, labyrinthian complexity and financial difficulties -the Paris Metro has a smell...
...ardent admirer of Hitler, he did not have to borrow Nazi racist ideas; he already had them. In 1941 he proclaimed: "One of the cornerstones of the British Empire is equal rights for everybody irrespective of color or smell. The other cornerstone is British-Jewish capitalism." Later he amplified his remarks to denounce "the detestable British-Jewish and liberal democratic system which we have in our country today." In recent weeks he has been openly critical of Malan's failure to make effective many of the stricter apartheid (segregation) measures. Said Strydom: "The old man is holding...
...week's end the murder motive remained unclear. Inevitably, there was talk that Remington had been killed because of his Communist background. Said the Daily Worker: "To shocked humanity it will smell strongly like the jails of Hitler and Mussolini.'' The FBI and Remington's lawyer doubted that politics played the slightest part in the crime...
...works. "It must be understood, she wrote in old age, "that my collection of Indian pictures was not done in a comfortable studio. You have got to go out and wrestle with the elements, with all your senses alert . . . You have got to hold your nose against the smell of rotten fish, and you've got to have the creeps. You must learn to feel the pride of the Indian in his ancestors, and the pinch of the cold, raw damp of the West Coast, and the smell and flavor of the wood smoke, and the sting...