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...should not there be a language for the nose? The more the senses can be used indifferently for each other, the more our understandings would be enlarged. A rose, jassamine, a pink, a jonquil and a honeysuckle might signify the vowels, the consonants to be represented by other flowers. How charming it would be to smell an ode from a nosegay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Walpole Sampler | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...long refugee coat by Mendes, tabbed and belted in webbing. It matched her bermudas matched to the cozy-collared, double-breasted battle jacket. On the lower level she was footed in Emm??? newly-designed shoes, like laced-up tennis sandals on thick crepe soles, in prairie green banded with jonquil yellow. She oohed and aahed the most when Canonero was brought out from his stall and admitted to being wild about all things Latin...

Author: By Elsie Wilson, | Title: Canonero II Slated to Be Triple Crown Winner | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

...daughter in Tunes of Glory, will certainly reach stardom on her own in Loss of Innocence, the film version of Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, which Columbia Pictures will release in the U.S. in the fall. With a trim, sylvan body, winter-sky-blue eyes and jonquil hair. 22-year-old Susannah is one of the few English girls who can seem equally natural nibbling strawberries in a May-fairy frock in The Players Restaurant at Wimbledon or sprinting eastward in a bikini on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Born in London and raised in Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: The '61s | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

Aside from a slight case of indigestion incurred among the outfielders in the incurred among the outfielders in the heat of the midday jonquil sun, the Lampooners managed to stave off bid after determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Upsets Odds Pulberizes Runcible Poon 23-2 Under Tepid Morbiuezza Sun | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...lyricism that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which crammed the bow-windows of the ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved prisoners fell on the bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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