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Most readers had heard of "fear-smell" before, accepted Author Terhune's dictum without question. But Dr. A. J. Reich of Manhattan wrote to the American Medical Association for confirmation. Last fortnight A. M. A. replied in its Journal that Mr. Terhune's "established scientific fact" was baseless. Fact was, said the Journal, that "many hundred times the normal output of epinephrine [adrenalin] may be injected intravenously in dogs, and man, in the presence of dogs, with the latter showing no 'hate' or 'contempt' detectable...
...breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...
...that year the heirs turned it over to the University of Rochester. In 1930 the old building was ruined by fire and Ward's moved into a four-story brick building which it rented from American Chicle Co. Among the pungent odors of formaldehyde and methyl alcohol, the smell of Chiclet chewing gum is still discernible. Most of the building is drab and dirty-windowed, but the administration offices, including that of President Dean L. Gamble, are cheerfully decorated in brown and tan. Bulky minerals and meteorites are kept in the cellar bones in bins or on the floor...
...Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that is my enemy. . . . What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Mr. du Pont hurried to a telephone, called up the cartoonist at the Record of fice, asked for the original. Canny Cartoonist Doyle, whose pictorial presentations of the du Fonts have hitherto been distinctly unflattering, assumed that he was talking to a prankster, glibly promised to mail the drawing...
...rich Mary Hague should want to come out of her luxurious life as mistress of the whole 21st floor of the Ritz Tower Hotel, where she collects coins, miniature paintings and small-sized dachshunds (she now owns 18), were not satisfied by her explanation that she wanted "the smell of the sawdust." But her future plans told more. This winter she hopes to make the opera Manon for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to sing weekly for the Coca-Cola radio program, and next spring to be a guest artist at the Coronation Concerts in England...