Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tanguy Flavor...
Thomas Jefferson's fine old University of Virginia is a state-run institution, but it has long maintained the flavor of a small, exclusive private college. Traditionally, it has drawn more big wheels from prep schools than public schools, has been the happy hunting ground for sons of the F.F.V.s (First Families of Virginia) and members of the F.F.U. (First Fraternities of the University). But in recent years the gentleman's-club tradition has found itself challenged by a serious-minded administration and by a more down-to-earth sector of the student body. Last spring the campus...
...hundreds of students to playing string quartets, singing chorales, attending symphony concerts in the city ("They come around to see her," says her mother, "just like she was their own mama"). But in spite of her popularity, Miss Green retains some ideas with a refreshingly old-fashioned flavor: "There is never a time when I don't want to teach. But in like manner, I never grow tired of studying, and always hold to the belief that one cannot be a successful teacher unless she devotes herself to a life of study as well...
...native Kentuckian . . . I was puzzled with "Hot as hackydam" and " 'whittledycut' -which in Kentucky means a real fine horse race." Would it be unkind to suggest that such expressions may have been used by infiltrators of the Pennyroyal . . . or that your correspondent had been investigating that special flavor the limestone imparts to the bourbon...
...success in all these parts is a triumph of the whole, and the triumph belongs to Director Ophuls. The hybrid style he has developed, with its exotic fertilizations from a dozen earlier epochs, has at last produced a mature fruit-a sort of artistic pomegranate. The flavor is a shade oversubtle, but most people will be delighted to have tried...