Word: smells
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Basie's band seems to be holding up from all reports, so that any smell emanating from this engagement, can probably be laid to the management...
...Weak excitations of the organs of sense of hearing, taste or smell enhance the sensitivity of other sense organs, including those of sight, whereas strong excitations have the opposite effect...
...maintenance of morale, the Red Cross has discovered it is the little things that count-the piano set up in an old auto showroom in Algiers, the county-fair smell of hamburgers rising amid the Oriental smells of New Delhi, the Wild West movies in the jungles of New Caledonia. Morale, too, means keeping in touch with home. Has the sergeant's baby been born? The Red Cross will find out. Did the Corporal forget his sister's birthday? The Red Cross will send a message...
Boston critics thought up various comments. The Boston Herald's Rudolph Elie Jr. managed this: "It may even be that it is the first truly indigenous composition of any lasting significance; there are those who smell . . . the more intimate details of American agriculture in its textures...
They came on bicycles - runty, bowlegged little men in cheap, stained uniforms, half of them wearing spectacles, only one out of every 25 armed with a machine gun, the rest carrying .25-caliber rifles. They were drenched in old sweat - "you could smell a troop of Japs 100 feet away . . . they smelt like hell...