Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true overtones of art. Perhaps it suggests that a circus is but a smaller version of the world, and as misleadingly gay a one; perhaps it shows how people love to dramatize pain, how grossness is always buying up beauty. But none of this, is new, whatever the '20s had thought, and it is not made compelling. It is only, at its best, made spectacular...
Unending afflictions qualified 36-year old Teppe as the prophet of "implacable pessimism." As a child he was constantly ill and morose. He lost the sight of an eye in his 20s in a way no doctor could explain. Since then he has been plagued by rheumatism, sciatica, asthma, stomach ailments, severe headaches, and extreme insomnia. Dressed in pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel...
Most tenants who bought into co-ops did so with their eyes open. They knew that most of those who invested in co-ops in the '20s lost their money when land values slumped. In spite of more limited liability today, they still stand to lose everything they put in if they overstay the market. But they go ahead anyway. The necessities of housing have become more important than the economics...
Divorced. Mickey Walker, 44, world's middle and welterweight champ of the '20s, today a self-taught, persevering painter; by Wife No. 3 Eleanor Marvil Walker; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newark, N.J. Said she: "Art is now Mickey's only love...
Growing Pains. This phenomenal growth has all been within the last decade. It began one day in the late '20s in Dallas when 1,500 schoolteachers asked Baylor University Hospital if it would furnish three weeks prepaid care for a fixed, per-person payment of $6 a year. The hospital, scenting a dependable source of income, said...