Word: scent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tournament of Roses" truly justifies its name. For in California, while New England lies frozen and bound by Jack Frost's fetters, roses bloom and orange blossoms scent the air. Thousands of tourists go there, seeking the warmth and sunshine of the Pacific Coast...
...style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...