Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laplanders keep reindeer for milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...
...Allen winning from Captain C.H. Bradford by decision. Russell, who is the intercollegiate champion in his class and who has never been defeated while wrestling for Yale, succeeded in getting a headlock on Hayne and scoring a fall in seven minutes 15 seconds. There was a distinct football flavor about the unlimited match, in which Allen, Yale's star fullback gained a close decision over Captain Bradford of Harvard, who was one of the regular line-men on the University eleven last fall. Turner of Harvard, scored his seventh straight win in taking the decision from Krevitt of Yale...
...roared her lord," being an excellent example. And the delightful little gesture about the man who abridged in Bridgeport. That has flavor. And the characters enjoy a certain spiciness, perhaps the sparkler of impossibility. For aside from the old mother who was so very wise and middle western and the stage manager with a penchant for odd books, they move and have their being in a rather crude and unusual fashion--being more romantic than classic, much more...
...some time close observers have remarked the absence from the small town press of that virile political flavor which formerly distinguished it. Rural newspaper have come to rely more and more upon advertising for their support. And since advertisers are particularly capricious in bestowing their patronage, experience has taught the rural editor to curb his native vigor. The doctrine preached by the late Mr. Munsey has triumphed...
...feminine equivalent of bluff gives a distinctively piquant flavor to penny ante. Few strong men holding good hands can resist the appeal of a womanly raise when deuces are wild. Small wonder therefore that British auction players fear for the future of their game. Once more, London Bridge is falling down...