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...winter-well, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded for the dawn; but sweaters are popular indoor wear and showers are not an everyday luxury. Lukewarm sponge baths will do, and if the air is not always very fragrant in the human vicinity, the automobile fumes are gone...
...result, retail prices of Parmesan in many stores have nearly doubled, from $2.70 a pound in midsummer to $4.70 a pound currently. The price hike caused an outpouring of rage. "Bastaf" cried desperate Italian housewives, forced to turn up their noses at the fragrant wheels stacked on their grocers-shelves."When Parmesan went up to $4 a pound," said one Milanese widow living on a pension, "I told my grocer to eat it himself...
...party had climaxed at about 12:30 a.m., when a contingent of Wellesley women who had flushed into the room with the studied elan and fragrant swish of social breeding abandoned us for the bus back home or the rooms of hospitable Harvard students. The stoned still demanded drinks at the bar and barked when they were not available, the girl with the eye on her shirt had been convinced to keep on dancing, and even the boy with the tired black hat on his head continued to dance angularly with the girl I still...
DuBois, who returned last month to the United States after four years in Cario, Egypt, made frequent references to Africa as the black homeland. She called America "this alien land so different from the warm, fragrant, sun-drenched plains of Africa...
...there are exotic trains still in ser vice. The Trans-Siberia Express is running, though there is a strong possibility of having a lady commissar as your sleepermate. Angola's Benguela line, whose locomotives are the world's most fragrant (they burn eucalyptus logs), huffs up and down mountainsides, as does Chile's Antofagasta & Bolivia. The great Sud Express from Paris to Madrid - with a stop at the Spanish border for a change from standard-to broad-gauge (more than half a foot wider) undercar riage - still hauls magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star...