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...smell a parallel. There were all sorts of complaints afoot when the Council thought up its original parking lot, but when the student had to put down four dollars a month to park his car three-quarters of a mile away, it just wasn't worth it. Mr. Pyne figures a five-minute walk for the distance, reasonable time for a cross-country man; students will probably forego the exercise and the fee and go on parking their cars on the streets...
Janet Flockhart had explored the woods near her home trying to track down a putrid smell that had long bothered her family. She eventually found the source-a decaying, fly-covered pile of garbage on the banks of Sims Bayou. Now, she said, she knew why fish had never been able to live in the bayou...
Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers her best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected and tired. --from the May 9, 1947, CRIMSON
...good to the signorine. "Men!" cried one lusty widow as she "smoothed the dress down over her body and stepped out of her house onto the pavement." In their own way, the British were equally enthusiastic : "This ol' street may niff a bit, but it don't smell as bad as . . . those unburied dead rottin' out there in the sun . . . Some of these judies aren't bad lookers." Before the week was out, many of the company had made themselves right at home. They dandled bambini on their knees, staged feasts with their rations and forgot...
...disillusionment that many a pilgrim to Italy this Holy Year is sure to suffer. For the North-South gap is cultural as well as religious, and the new visitor to Italy had better know before he goes that though Florence, for example, signifies "the City of Flowers" its "characteristic smell. . . is horse-dung, its characteristic noise motorcycles and its characteristic sight [black-market] money-changers." To view the beauties of this masterpiece among cities, visitors must still, like Poet Robert Browning, nose their way through smelly, dingy streets, searching for some church or belfry embedded and lost in a garish...