Word: aromas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldtime Englishmen hung up their meat ... to tenderize, and when it gave off a slight aroma it was said to be "high." A goose in this delectable condition was ready for the fall and winter feasting and festivals and, from the anticipation thereof, arose the foregoing connotation...
...picture has its dramatic moments, and in all fairness, it is intelligently and plausibly directed. Ian Hunter, as the reporter, has a new and manly aroma about him, while Paul Lukas carries his part adequately, ever attended by his aristocratic Hungarian accent. The star, Miss Francis, photographs nicely, and, her fans will be know, is still as fetchingly incapable of pronouncing the consonant "r" as ever. Beyond this there is little that one can say in her favor, and this department will leave unopened the question of Miss Francis histrionic ability. On the whole "Stella Parrish" is an undistinguished picture...
Longing for a bit of the rich aroma of old scholarship, yesterday we decided to browse. Forgetting things temporal in the stacks of Widener and the dust of decades, we pored over many a musty tome. Among our findings was an apocryphal edition of Gaius Suctonins Tranquillus' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars". There were portions of it where the nosy grandfather of all the columnists had become sillier than ever. To save his face generous moderns have cut his trash. But for the moment we resented our present-day cult of the important, and we reveled in triviala...
...slants toward its autumnal solstice, he lays down his tools and turns his thoughts to rest and fun. Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would not see the end of this rural revelry, for the South, busy with...
...veritable Metternich in silk skirts, provoked a nationwide Austrian sensation by having her handsome, silky-mustached young Son Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, ardent restorationists, have been sorely troubled because hot-headed Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, who commands an adventurous private army, has told them, in effect: "Of course I want Otto restored...