Word: smells
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...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...
...effete, passive self-indulgence. To make a million dollars by singing for the screaming teeny-boppers is not really the world's worst fate. Young acts and writes as though the whole world, and particularly women, have exploited and misunderstood him, when all he wanted to do was smell the flowers...
...Salvador Dali: "He wore a carnation behind his ear to take away the smell. He used to eat tins of sardines and put the oil on his hair...
...source. Having written the classic book on the subject, The Dancing Bees, Von Frisch went on to publish Man and the Living World (1936), an ethological survey of the life sciences. It ranges from behaviorist speculations on the cause of man's relatively weak sense of smell (since man stands upright, his nose is too far from the ground to follow spoors any more) to the fact that calluses on the feet are inherited...
...friend and sometime associate, Buzz Farber. In fact, only eight of the 23 contributors are women. Even a solid advice article on how women can protect themselves from VD is written by a man. Two other articles are clearly directed toward women, one on the aphrodisiac aspects of smell and the other on male sexual fantasies. The first is old-hat, the second a bit sick...