Word: aphrodisiacal
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University--"Bolero". George Raft and Carole Lombard in a colorful, musical movie featuring Ravel's aphrodisiac masterpiece. The music by the way is played too fast. "Six of a Kind". Charlie Ruggles nonsense to relieve weary eyes. W. C. Fields steals the show...
...modern times that can compare with it for outspokenness in barnyard and backhouse terms is the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. But Ulysses is far from being "just another dirty book." Judge Woolsey decided that its purpler passages are "emetic," rather than "aphrodisiac"; that the net effect of its 768 big pages is "a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women." But even granting Ulysses a bill of moral health an intelligent adult may well smite his brow...
...considered opinion after long reflection is that while in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac...
...reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there was always a bouncer in a dark hallway to knock him down, pick his pockets, roll him into the gutter...
...cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five days. On the sixth day he took two ouarit beans. Soon after, he swears, he became unconscious, remained that way for some days. When he regained consciousness, he was stone blind...