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...time in his second-floor suite redrafting his speeches in the light of what he had heard. At a second press conference he gave his own simplified version of U.S.-Russian relations. He likened the two countries to two big dogs facing each other: "For a long time they smell each other-when they're satisfied, they usually don't want to fight." "Chaperoned" by U.S. Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas, he lunched with Prime Minister Clement Attlee...
...Springy night-breeze, wafted in from Boylston Street, blew over the open pickle jar beside the cash register and made Vag's nostrils dilate voluptuously with the smell of dill. "Ah, Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky...
...offender, Laborite James Dixon Murray, an ex-miner, hastily crammed orange and peelings into his pocket. But Boothby's motive was not to shame a Laborite. He is allergic to oranges: "I simply can't stand the smell of the things...
...Smell of the Things." Later Churchill's hoarse voice, as he conferred with his front-bench colleagues, crashed into Sir Stafford Cripps's defense of Britain's quitting India. Cripps turned on Churchill, icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel...
...type. Then he bought a race horse, and found a plaything that appealed to his instinct for high drama and fascinating figures. He confided to friends: "I'm going to run this stable the way I run my studio -build it on personalities." But once the heady smell of the stables got him, things got out of hand...