Word: smells
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SINGAPORE'S English-speaking inO habitants know it best as "The City of Smells." If there is one predominant smell in Singapore today, it is not the withering blast of the garlic the natives put in their food, or the sickly sweet smell of the Zam-Zam hair oil they put on their heads; the strongest and biggest smell in Singapore is the sulphurous stench of unprocessed rubber. To the people of Singapore all the perfumes of Araby could not smell as sweet...
...Where there is sports talk, there is difference of opinion, and where there is difference of opinion, there is betting. Sooner or later, some tycoon of the betting world attempts to bring order out of the chaos of sporting unpredictability. Whether he succeeds or fails, there is a bad smell, and sports figures spend a few days paying lip service to the self-destructive tendencies of "big-time sport." Then--onward and upward...
...doctor probably would have told Reynard Langrish that what he needed was a long vacation. Besides his chronic catarrh, he was having trouble with his hearing, and his sense of smell wasn't as sharp as it should be. Even cigarettes had begun to taste bad. What was worse, his home in the provincial English town where he lived with his deaf mother was getting on his nerves. After a day at his dull bank clerk's job, his restlessness would become intolerable, driving him out for long, aimless walks. On the rainswept night that the strapping young...
...Division since its arrival in Korea last summer, was relieved of his command. The official reason was that Keiser had pneumonia. Keiser was replaced by red-faced, outspoken Major General Robert B. ("Uncle Bob") McClure, a top staff man in the Pacific war who had once remarked that the "smell of a dead Jap is perfume to my nostrils...
...Great Dissenter" (well played, as on Broadway, by Louis Calhern-see THEATER) emerges a gruff but amiable gaffer, quietly and steadily outsmarted by a devoted wife (Ann Harding), whom he showers with courtly attentions. He loves his country, his profession, the smell of spring and (deep down) the Harvard Law School honor graduates who come each year to serve as his secretaries and "sons...