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...Quiet Life. During the 1920s Webster was a member in good standing of that ultra-American generation of writers and actors and cartoonists and illustrators which focused around the offices of the World and The Players and The Dutch Treat Clubs. He has long since receded to the blander pleasures of upper-middle-class suburbia in Stamford, Conn, and -with a mild sheepishness about the stylish address, and sincere enough murmurs about the Websters' susceptibility to colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything is as much worth coming into...
These sharp etchings of Kings & Desperate Men are set off by broader and blander portrayals of the aristocrats; country gentlemen; the Universities; Bath ("Farewell, dear Bath," said a lady of fashion, "nowhere so much scandal, no where so little sin!"); of the male tops (macaronies) whose days were spent perfuming and prinking and whose powdered pompadours were sometimes almost as tall as their wearers; and of the poor, who sought escape from their horrible condition in gin-drinking-"at once the most pathetic and the most tragic of proletarian revolutions-an overthrow of order by the worst means, and toward...
...climbed in search of blander prospect...
...fine screen to form a smooth liquid. The brew is poured into vats for heating, and if cocktails are to be made, spices are stirred in with paddles. Formulas for mixing, always secret, usually vary in different tomato localities. Midwest tomatoes are inclined to be acidic, eastern tomatoes smoother, blander, California tomatoes sweetest...