Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are lots of people in the U. S. who were born here and are not citizens. Take the Indians for instance...
...whom he knows too much, too much that will sell quickly to the popular magazines, ever to be able to settle down, to take the bumps with the best of them. Fitzgerald is The Rich Boy of literature for whom his mistress Money must die that he may be born again...
...dramatic matriarchy, he adjusted his bat wing tie, leaned on his cane, angled his hat, was, in fact, the life of the party. Yet one cannot forgive him those lines--or Gertrude Jennings either--"Do you remember your parents? Then I suppose they died before you were born." Men have walked the streets of Brockton for less than that...
...Thomas Cook was born 1808, died...
...this is true and out of no story book. But it goes into a story book most readily. The young gentleman who has romanticized it was born in another tradition of colorful early America (a distant uncle was minister of finance to Ferdinand and Isabella). His literary abilities more than deserve the graceful prefatory gesture that is accorded them by Edward Lucas White...