Word: smells
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...smell of it from shops where they were grinding it, met one at every turn. So the myth that Italy is coffeeless explodes. They serve it intensely strong. No one in Naples or Genoa-our next stop-seemed the least concerned with what was brewing on the Brenner Pass. I mean by this that they were not buying papers or evincing any interest in any events if you asked them for their views...
Year and a half ago a Royal Commission headed by Anthropologist Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne, left England for the West Indies to find out what was wrong with that restless segment of Empire. In Jamaica the Commission got its first smell of economic and physical deterioration. That sunny island, whose white 2% of the population (largely descendants of "lazy and immoral" Irish girls, "Scotch rogues and vagabonds" sent there by Oliver Cromwell) rules its black 98% (descendants of West African slaves), was in such a state that the two female members of the Commission pressed handkerchiefs to their noses...
...machine (which once was Huey Long's), only Maestri himself and Huey's loud little brother, Governor Earl Long, were left untouched. And Earl was not much company. He was busy trying to convince Louisiana voters, just before a Democratic run-off primary this week, that that smell of corruption in the air was no reason to turn him out of the governorship and install Lawyer Sam Houston Jones...
There are those in navy blue with cowls on their heads. They hurry about in the dim blue light of great factories filled with the sickly smell of chemicals. They carry yard after yard of what looks like pastry. On the walls are signs: ONE MISTAKE CAN BRING DISASTER. The pastry is gunpowder in the making and if the women did not wear their cowls they would go home at night with inflammable hair. "I like the work," says one. "My husband is mobilized. I must do some thing to keep the family going. Oh no, we never think about...
...last week to occupy the hottest neutral spot in Europe as Germany and the Allies continued to high-pressure her over oil. A Rumanian statesman once said, "Better give them oil than blood." But by last week Rumanian statesmen almost wished Rumania had no oil. It was beginning to smell of blood...