Word: odorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pork pies), rillettes (pork tidbits to be eaten with bread or thrown into the mouth like candy), croutons (crusty bread browned in pork fat), twelve dozen sugared beignets (doughnuts), tete a fromage (headcheese). Soon the kitchen, then the whole ten-room apartment on Fraser Street, was fragrant with the odor of spice...
...When Ministers of the Crown speak like this," commented Churchill, ". . . the Prime Minister and his friends have no need to wonder why they are getting increasingly into bad odor...
...lady from Baltimore wanted to send her son to school. But the good boarding schools were mostly in New England, and she thought that her son was too young to be sent that far from home. Baltimore's public schools "gave off a nauseous odor," in the words of the city's own health commissioner. They were cramped and dingy, had no place where their pupils could play. So Mrs. Francis Carey rounded up a handful of like-minded mothers and they founded a school of their own-the first country day school in the U.S. Last week...
...suggested that. But it was hard to remove the gamy odor of Johnny Meyer's lavish attentiveness, which Elliott had still not completely explained. This week the committee had a lot more to ask Elliott before it was ready for Hughes...
...Author Dickens (great-granddaughter of Charles) pays her respects to the time-honored story of the patient-this one a wounded soldier-who falls in love with his nurse. But she has also created an affectionate picture of a Shropshire household. The Happy Prisoner exudes a country-fresh odor of plowed earth and drying horse blankets...