Word: casanova
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First, in April, came Casanova Jr.'s Tales, a quarterly for subscribers only at $5 per copy, $15 per annum...
...interesting curve of intrepidity could be traced through these four periodicals in the order of their appearance, from Casanova Jr.'s Tales, which were shipped to customers by sly express, to Beau which contained advertising from eminently respectable tradesmen, such as Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. (collars, shirts) and Levy Bros. & Adler-Rochester (good suitings). Casanova Jr.'s Tales, edited by one Francis Page, advertised stimulating material by Aubrey Beardsley, Catulle Mendès and Casanova himself ("hitherto obtainable only in editions costing from $50 to $500"). It republished My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that...
...central figure is an elderly English novelist off for a holiday in Venice. In the surrounding group are his recently acquired mistress; an effusive lady novelist; a direct descendant of Casanova; a lean clergyman and his equally bewildered wife?plus one or two minor folk. These chatter aimlessly about love and its various imitations. The lady novelist falls into the canal...
...cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville, and Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada. The day before Cardinal Hayes' arrival, before an immense throng of royalty, nobility, ambassadors and Holy Year pilgrims packed in the great basilica of St. Peter's, the five new cardinals heard Pius XI order from his raised throne: "Accipe galerum rubrum!" (Take...
...glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...