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...pine siding; the stinking clay yard, and "the chilly and small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...
...Most of this area has been reconquered, and the slightly sour smell of death hovers over it. ... Fields have been chewed by tractor and tank treads and pitted by shellbursts...
From onetime richest Macfadden magazine, Physical Culture had come gradually to smell of must and stale sweat. Its newsstand circulation fell to a senile 36,156, the smallest in the Macfadden tribe. But Oldster Macfadden, stubborn and misty-eyed, always remembered that Physical Culture 42 years ago started him on his climb to fortune, publicized him as a muscle messiah. As long as he had the say he flatly refused to turn it into a beauty magazine...
...including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal the wolves were waiting for; the door to the icebox was flung open. All of the Presidentially refrigerated cuts of pork were dragged from the hooks, even the long-dead $197,000,000 Florida Ship Canal. The smell of pork was rich over the Capitol...
...yielded only a brownish broth . . . a field flask with drinking water . . . today in the East is worth more than anything that can happen to you. . . . We yearn for so much . . . for one hour without the din of battle, for one stretch of summer landscape that doesn't smell of conflagration and death, for one walk through a street of peace with children's laughter and clinking of glasses reaching your ear from a jolly window. Yet all this becomes threadbare and infinitesimal compared with the yearning for the great water, for water for drinking, for bathing, for nonsensical...