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Pungent. In Manhattan. Magistrate Peter Abeles fined Harry Marrin $250, sent him to jail for five days - because "your transactions in the onion black market smell to high heaven...
...Mabel's Room (United Artists) is such a strong smell of camphor that only the most insensitive cinemoths can survive it. On the notion that a terrible wheeze, properly delivered, can be even funnier than a good one, the revival of this stone-age (1919) stage farce might have turned out very well. But all the players handle its dim demi-wit as if it were Oscar Wilde epigrams...
...light, electrical impulses defined a cross-shaped area at the back of the occipital lobe of the brain. A sound heard by the subject likewise made a brain image of a characteristic shape. Dr. Adrian observed that he had not yet discovered the shape of a violet's smell but he is confident that eventually he will...
...Outfit"-presumably the remnants of the old Capone gang-was being muscled out. Black-market traffic in liquor* and even in cheese was involved; so was the overlordship of gambling, bawdyhouses and numerous other rackets. Then, to top it off, to give the stories the real burnt-powder smell of the turbulent '20s, the name of another Capone flashed into the news. He was Al's younger brother Matt, the pampered one of the family, the one Al had sent to Villanova College to get culture, the one who liked to listen to Puccini's music...
...Slander of the Irish, is the Greater Society of Greater Boston for the prevention of cruelty to the summer season's flies. For that purpose, it seems, the screened-box arrangement has been originated. Theoretically, it gives the flies a chance to get inside, have a good smell, and get out most expeditiously...