Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gehrig went when other doctors had given up. (Mayo's confirmed the hopeless diagnosis.) It is the place where Lyndon Baines Johnson had one kidney stone removed by manipulation and another by surgery. It is the place to which Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the '20s, went when she was failing in the '40s, and to which Prince Feisal, now Premier of Saudi Arabia, went for an ulcer checkup...
...community in Berlin and Paris. Several of these translations, notably 1963's version of The Gift (his last Russian novel), have displayed the unmistakable Nabokov wit and sardonic inventiveness. The Defense is the earliest of his work yet to be reissued, and reading Nabokov of the '20s is like looking at a childhood snapshot of an old friend: the features are uncomfortably unformed, the resemblances often disappointing...
...20s and 30s," Riesman continues, "professor was seen as a sheltered person who was not very manly. This view was somewhat false then but now it is widely askew...
...York, everything was anticlimactic after that. He tersely rejected every offer to capitalize on his heroics, declared: "This uniform ain't for sale." He returned to a simple life in the mountains with his wife Gracie, reared seven children. He made several tours in the early '20s to raise money for a grammar and high school at home, only yielded to repeated pleas to permit the movie of his life when convinced that it might inspire patriotism. The movie brought him some $150,000 -plus a yen for philanthropy, countless spongers he was too soft to turn down...
Half-bald since his 20s, Boyer never wears his toupee offscreen, and recently-as his parts have aged-he has been leaving it off while performing as well. He is a sleepless man-an hour of tossing for every five minutes of slumber. He has been married for 30 years, and has been an American citizen for 22. His wife was an English actress who gave up her career soon after their wedding. Because of his stability and longevity, Boyer is presumed rich, and he probably is by anyone's standards but his own. "I'm not rich...