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Word: fragrant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over lazily as the Chapel bell tolled the hour, swung his feet to the floor, and rejoiced that it was over. Once again he could ascond the dizzy heights of his aesthotic seclusion, leaving the sordid world of men and Professors. He lighted a leisurely pipe, that first, sweet, fragrant pipe before breakfast. New-found freedom found him unprepared, a man lost in the aether with no ground under his feet. The gleaming morning sun flashed in rosy reflection from the gilt binding of a small book on the dusty shelves. Shelley, that was it! Now there was a period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/3/1933 | See Source »

...Obolensky Romanoff) in Dunhill's London shop, had set the Law on his slick little customer. As of yore, Mike's craving for Royal Yacht pipe tobacco, at $10 per lb., had gotten him in trouble. He simply cannot keep a.way from Dunhill's and its fragrant mixture, which was first recommended to him, he claims, by his royal friend "David" (Prince of Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Royal Yachter | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...have been familiar to countless readers since the middle '90s, will shortly appear upon the screen and over the radio in strictly modern dress. No longer a part of the New Haven tradition of bulldogs and turtle-necked sweaters, when the original Mortaritya and their golden lucks were a fragrant reality and when fence rush and freshman fraternities both flourished as glorious campus institutions. Frank is being brought up to date by Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...wrong. But, particularly in a game so cleanly and decisively won as that of Saturday, it would have been an act of good sportsmanship to lot the Brown men carry off the kindling unmolested. The chief charm of football is its good sportsmanship. The Saturday aftermath was not pleasingly fragrant. -Boston Traveller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.O.T. | 11/1/1932 | See Source »

...which arrived a week ago from the sequestered loneliness of his cabin on the heights of Monadnock. Among the tobacco tins and books he found one small red box. It bore the legend "Salome: Gold Tipped," and in the tinfoil lining there was a stale, forgotten cigarette, still slightly fragrant with rose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/28/1932 | See Source »

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