Word: lilac
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...twig upon which that bright bird, sectional pride, may sit to preen its feathers. To Oregon its apples, Texas its longhorns, Kansas its jayhawks; the wheat-farms of Minnesota, the sandlots of Florida, the mammy-songs of Alabama and the golden whales of California. And Indiana, the lilac and honeysuckle state of Indiana, whose breeze is thick with fancies as its gardens are with bees-Indiana is the nursery of writers. So many are the literary people who have come from Indiana that when last week the Indiana Club of Manhattan wanted to give a dinner to Hewitt H. ("Indiana...
What Price Morning-Glories, a purified play where Sergeant Squirt in lavender pajamas gets gloriously drunk with Captain Sagg, on chocolate malted milks and chocolate nut sundaes, until the Captain turns on the sergeant with: "You lilac!" and the infuriated sergeant screams: "You son of a bachelor's button...
...olive of Pharmacy, lilac of Dentistry, russet of Forestry, gray of Veterinary Science, lemon of Library Science, light blue of Pedagogy, drab of Commerce and Accountancy, sage of Physical Education, salmon of Public Health, orange of Engineering, silver of Oratory, maize of Agriculture and copper of Economics appear to be arbitrary selections for degrees more recently instituted...
Atlanta sent a scout, one C. B. Bidwell, over to find how it was done. On the first evening of his visit, rain deluged the city at seven o'clock. At eight, he went to the auditorium, found 5,000 people there, heard the light opera The Lilac Domino finely performed. The scout returned to Atlanta and reported to his chief, Asa G. Candler, Coca-Cola man. The latter was astounded by the revelations he received...
...Lilac, oriental bouquet, jasmine, French bouquet, violet, rose. That is the order in which women prefer perfumes, according to tests made on 200 girls of Barnard and Teachers' College by Professor Albert T. Poffenberger, Columbia psychologist. The results were confirmed by more numerous subjects at the 71st Regiment Armory Perfume Show. With men the order was lilac, French bouquet, jasmine, oriental bouquet, rose, violet. With advancing age, men and women both tend to prefer more pungent perfumes than lilac, though young girls like them too. Slim women and all young men want faint perfumes...