Word: artagnan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles is a D'Artagnan who has touched the imagination of the war-weary, strike-disgusted, politics-stuffed world. It is a city doing the impossible. Hundreds of thousands have come, are coming-the new type of pioneer. . . . Los Angeles dominates the old-world, has 1,050,000 people, ranks third place in building for 1923, leads in intercoastal shipping and has the most unique Little Theatre in America. If John Doe leaves your town for Los Angeles folks are far more interested in what he is doing than if he goes to New York, or Chicago...
...ladies of a beauty which battles description. "Only the brave deserve the fair" might be called the keynote of the Romancers. Of course, that's changed now. Only the bread-winners deserve the fair in these degenerate days. But then, the whole structure has changed. Who can imagine D'Artagnan carrying on his habitual warfare with a tank of phosgen strapped upon his back, or Robert Clay sitting in his but and slaying his enemies with electrically controlled bombing planes! Individual fighting and even retail killing may appeal to the animal instincts, artistically cloaked with Romance, but wholesale killing with...
...known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham in the liver-wing-suffered a terrible beating from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself in such proper d'Artagnan fashion that it seemed only fair for Mr. Sabatini to reward him with Sylvia's hand and a nice little governorship somewhere in the Indies...