Word: aromas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chamber players sat before a massive-walled old building topped with a stone champagne glass. Through the open doors came the aroma of wine breathing through huge oaken casks. Ducking an occasional low-swooping swallow, the audience settled back near the twisting vines of the Pinot Noir grape for an afternoon of music and champagne. If the wine was only domestic, the music was great or rare: Beethoven, 18th century German Composer Johann Schobert, 76-year-old Italian Composer G. Francesco Malipiero...
...caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering at passing virgins in an abandoned manner." He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump...
CHEZ PA VAN, by Richard Llewellyn (527 pp.; Doubleday; $4.95), is one of those literary stews that have a savory aroma when served at the table. The scandalous secrets of a snobbish Parisian hotel promise more than enough meat for a pungent bestseller. But Bestselling Author (How Green Was My Valley) Llewellyn, though he studied in hotel schools, blends his ingredients with the heavy hand of a short-order fry cook...
...Dealing New York Lawyer Morris Ernst, who has defended liberal causes ranging from James Joyce's Ulysses to the Sauerkraut Workers Union, this week finished a chore with a somewhat different aroma. After ten months on the payroll of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Ernst declared in a 95-page report that he had not found one scrap of evidence to link his eminent employer to the unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.). He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic...
...last fall Teacher Elsie May Peters walked into her junior high school classroom in Knoxville, Tenn., smelled an odd aroma and snapped: "What jackass turned on that...