Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interview with the left bank Paris Review, Dorothy ("Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses") Parker, wit, versifier and short-story writer, spoke frankly about many things. Of the '20s: "Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' . . . We all said, 'Whee! We're lost.' " Of her own verse: "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss [Edna St. Vincent] Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damn good. Let's face it, honey, my verse is terribly...
...prove to be profitable indeed. The reason: contemporary composers favor brilliant or unusual orchestral effects, and such effects are just dandy for showing off hi-fi phonograph equipment. Thus the battle of modern music appears to have reached its turning point, and the composers who pioneered during the '20s and '30s and their followers are about to enjoy victory...
...flourishing sideline in paper caps has grown out of Ingram's obsession for cleanliness. When he borrowed $700 to build the first turreted White Castle hamburger stand at Wichita, Kans. in the '20s. he decided to give the customer 5? hamburger, a shiny counter and immaculate countermen. He got his shiny counters, but his hound's-tooth countermen were hard to come by. After a couple of trips to the laundry, their 35? white linen caps looked like old socks-shrunken, grey and frayed. Said Ingram: Why not paper caps...
Behind the yellow stone walls of Nicosia's Central Prison last week, three young Greek Cypriots in their early 20s awaited the hangman. Andreas Zakos and Charilaos Mikhail, condemned for ambushing a British army jeep and killing its driver, lay placidly on their cots and listened to records of Bach and Beethoven. Iacovos Patatsou, who had been condemned for killing a Turkish Cypriot policeman (out of uniform), accepted the farewell of his widowed mother: "Face death with courage...
...time I give them, provided I have a subject that is picturesque." As John Adams wrote of Copley's portraits, "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers." Paul Revere at His Workbench (see cut) is a case in point. Copley was in his 20s when he portrayed his friend Revere, the silversmith, and he had already reached the peak...