Word: musk
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...Other critics compared the sound of his voice to "worn velveteen," or said it was "like being stroked by a hand covered with cold cream." One listener wondered if Frank tucked his voice under his armpit between numbers, and another said he sounded as if he had musk glands where his tonsils ought...
Intriguing Musk. Stirring the nightly quota of martinis, Tom tells Betsy that he is going to try for a public-relations job with United Broadcasting Corp. As he hurdles tricky interviews in the company's Rockefeller Center headquarters, Tom feels that even the brass-colored elevators carry the intriguing musk of big money. The scent is headiest around U.B.C.'s self-effacing but all-powerful $200,000-a-year president, Ralph Hopkins. It is to Hopkins that Tom is assigned as unofficial braintruster, ghostwriter and aide...
...this balm, to which you have already added the usual condiments of salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, beside an atom of ginger root, put a pinch of cayenne, a nutmeg cut into small pieces, a handful of crushed jumper berries, and lastly a dessertspoon of powdered sugar (effective as musk in perfumery), which serves to fix the different aromas. Twice a day you will turn the gigot. Now we come to the main point of the preparation. After you have placed the gigot in the marinade, you will arm yourself with a surgical syringe of a size to hold...
...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...
...most sophisticated studio products. Without even elementary training in art, working by flickering lamps in their igloos, and using only the simplest tools on bone, ivory and the green, grey or black rocks of their Arctic home, the Eskimos told of what they knew: the dull strength of a musk ox, its heavy head lowered on thick shoulders; the rubbery, spreading massiveness of a sunning seal; the graceful curves of an otter's sleek body...