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There were raccoon coats with built-in hip flasks, plaid-seated convertibles, plenty of Canadian Club; Vag was mentally immersed in a maelstrom of all night parties and lost weekends. He saw the crowds and colors of November Saturday afternoons and smelled the mixed aroma of burning leaves, Chanel, and rye hovering over Soldiers Field. Pretty girls there would be by the score, by the six dozen--the "golden girls." The bright lights and gay scenes revolved in perfect time to the Six Little Tailors, and for once, Vag smiled at the jingle...
...sometimes looks more like a ham actor in search of a role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers; as Reynard, whose affection at times was no match for his appetite...
Zaslavsky on White: An obscure American newspaperman of "doubtful reputation." His book's conclusions: "The standard stew from the Fascist kitchen, with all its aroma of calumnies, unpardonable ignorance and undisguised malice . . . [They] reveal the features of the worst section of the American Press...
Nephew Sebastian, meanwhile, was tossing miserably on his bed one night when the latch clicked and he was enveloped in an aroma of "spring freshness and musky animality." It was Mrs. Thwale. " 'Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love,'" she quoted later, huskily. Then she married Paul De Vries, the breakfast-food heir...
Mmmmm! In New Guinea, a captured Jap sheepishly explained that the aroma from the G.I. bakery had been so tantalizing that he had just had to surrender...