Word: fragrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shadow house a moneyed populace whispers expectantly, and straining, catches through a rift in the curtain delicious glimpses of promised wonders. And not a tear, even hypocritical, falls for the old fellow, battered but unbowed, led away to an obscure almshouse. It is the model Y of fragrant memories, a picaresque place that in the noisy exuberance of gallant youth growing nation. But it is said that Harvard and America are decadent now. One rides in Chryslers...
...sits this evening, enveloped in the fragrant, pearly clouds of smoke from his Rey Odoro Perfecto--".. thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into...
...State of Mississippi. To bestow it properly upon the U. S., Governor Dennis Murphree did not rely on his own eloquence but turned to pungent, quizzical onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator John Sharp Williams, who went to Vicksburg for the occasion from his retirement on his gardenia-fragrant plantation, "Cedar Grove," near Yazoo City, Miss...
From the point of view of the college undergraduate who leaves Cambridge for comic relief, the latest effort of sex filled Clara is blotto. The only relief is in seeing the bell hop-ushers dash fragrant gummers into their idea of ducal grandeur...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, bearded, grotesque, labored in an undershirt. Wrapped in clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...