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Hero George was born in the worst sort of airless middle class Victorian household. His parents, blindfolded and swaddled by sexual ignorance and sentimentalism, had tumbled into marriage and lived at leisure in shabby gentility and domestic tyranny. George became a painter, and, in revolt against his parents' ideas, contracted a free and childless union with Elizabeth. Later, when she mistakenly believed herself pregnant, he married her. They agreed that each should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went...
Died. Hermit, about 25, spotted hyena of the Washington, D. C., Zoo. During the entire 12 years of his captivity, he crouched in his black, airless den, fought attendants who tried to drag...
...only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room by the stairs and fixed it up. No one would, so she took it, fixed it over, lined it with brocade, put on the door a big plate?FARRAR...
...last year by the yacht Lanai. Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Holland, Germany and England (with a bright scarlet sailboat) challenged. The U. S. defender Lea and all but Sweden, Norway and Finland were eliminated in preliminaries. Each then won two races; Sweden drifted through an almost airless afternoon to win a third...
...dislodged the poise of the fine muscles there. The table stood on a carpet in the middle of the ballroom. He began to play with confidence and a measured rhythm. From four sides of the room the faces of the crowd, banked in rows, in the shadow, in the airless heat, watched him without moving. This was an important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German, Eric Hagenlacher, he was making a final effort to get his championship. After...