Word: musk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan Promoters James Victor Worth and William Bower were trying to develop a new perfume base, using a valerianate instead of musk. Their chemist was Dr. Samuel Molanr, onetime professor in Austria's University of Graz. Compounding certain chemicals (now a trade secret) he one day discovered to his amazement that the valerianate had been transformed, its odor completely destroyed. Contrary to known chemical laws, the reaction worked again & again. Promoters Worth & Bower knew about the clothing industry's troubles, were quick to see their discovery's commercial value...
...ghastly crimes solved by Philo Vance, those who feel terror grip their hearts in an astringent grasp at the shriek of an assassinated courtesan, they will enjoy the "Phantom of Crestwood." It abounds in all the paraphernalia of state grisliness, madmen, midnight murders, death masks, mobsters, and money musk...
...reward for the two hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter Harbor they found three herds of musk oxen and an old Eskimo settlement. Reported Adventurer Verville: "These Eskimos have milk-white skins, except where their face and hands have become tanned and weather-beaten...
...Kaoru and Niou, two princes of noble blood, and their affairs with Agemaki and Kozeri, Prince Hachi's lovely daughters. Kaoru is an exceptional youth with such a natural fragrance that even at a distance people can smell his "hundred-step scent." Niou, who carries no such natural musk, tries to emulate his friend by becoming an expert mixer of perfumes. But Niou's personal life, dedicated to endless amours, is not so savory. Kaoru. with heavenly leanings, leaves women and the court alone...
...crushed violet stems." The lesser sulphur exudes the fragrance of dried sweet grass. The orange clover's scent resembles heliotrope. If a cloud obscures the sun it at once seeks a resting place, preferably on something yellow. It is very social. The cloudless clover smells of violets and musk, the cabbage butterfly of mignonette and sweet briar, the yellow swallowtail of "certain brands of honey biscuits." The milkweed butterfly has an odor like "the faint sweet fragrance of red clover blossoms." The female smells like a cockroach...