Word: bouquets
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...minutes. In a demonstration before the Academy of Sciences, he took a bottle of new wine, and by placing it for a few minutes in an electrostatic field of from 60,000 to 100,000 volts, changed it in a short time so that in all respects -strength, color, bouquet-it could not be detected from old wine. Steps have been taken to commercialize the new invention...
...assumed the Illustrated is glad Major Flynn remains with the R. O. T. C. It gives the Major the front page for a picture, the editorial page for a bouquet and the only other page of prose for an interview. The editorial is a deft piece of work. It tells Major Flynn how glad, we are that he's here in a quaint but poignant fashion...
When the second bouquet is sent in, Ramon begins to be suspicious. The third bouquet is brought in while Narciso is out interviewing the landlord, and Ramon seizes the opportunity to send notes by Juana to three of his friends in the neighborhood...
...drives him out of the room. The third, El Quidam, proposes that, as his wife is in love with Narciso, he may as well support her and he pretends that he has forgotten his own and his wife's names. At a signal from Ramon, Juana returns with the bouquet of hyacinths, and El Quidam then remembers his wife's name. Don Narciso immediately sees that the tables have been turned and that he is the one who has been fooled...
...greatest undertaking of the stock company which has achieved such remarkable favor in lighter operas, and its efforts can aim no higher. The story, it is remembered, is that of Carmen, the cigarette girl, the prettiest and most coquettish of all in the factory, who throws a bouquet to Jose, a brigadier at Seville. Jose falls in love. A quarrel ensues among the girls. Carmen, declared the assailant, is ordered to prison. She fascinates the luckless brigadier, Jose, until he connives at her escape, and is himself placed under arrest for it. Carmen returns to her wandering gipsy life...