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Just as we thought. No camelias lured Robert Taylor to Garbo's side. You can guess what lured him as well as we. For camelais have no smell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

...both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion in Tribune Lawyer John Martineau who now jumped up in rebuttal to castigate the man who had bearded his boss. "A skunk never changes its spots either," reasoned Attorney Martineau, "nor its smell!" He went on to call Parker a long list of names beside which Parker's vituperation seemed pallid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Parker v. Tribune | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into a food similar to our bologna of today. It didn't taste well or smell good but it was filling. So when the Phoenician soldiers received this food, which was supposed to be beef, they would say, 'that's hooey.' The word traveled up through the ages, possibly journeyed from the Baltic Sea to Russia, although I have not been able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Muscle Makers | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...main business of the board is, of course, the college, from a smell in Mallinkrodt to a Conant speech. Here is the long-sought occasion to fulminate against brother Hearst, to analyse Mr. Roosevelt and all his works, to dig into facts and comment, to carp and to command, to charge about the University with purpose or malice aforethought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUTURE LIPPMANNS MAY GET START WEDNESDAY | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

After an habitual smoker stops, says Dr. Dorsey, his senses of smell and taste become acute. Appetite shows marked improvement. "Nervous, undernourished young women in particular are sometimes seen to undergo a renaissance. . . . Likewise the tense, active, tired man often improves his state of health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Indian Tobacco v. Tobacco | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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