Word: cupidities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every June, Vag has been joyously happy. The rebirth of nature's earth has been his rebirth too. Cupid, Puck, and Duty have fought for his attention, and he has reveled in their very battling. Once, so long ago, when he was a mewling prepster. June meant the end of another school year was near. It meant only that summer--an idyllic period of freedom and fun--approached. It meant a return to those hazy blue mountains which Vag loves...
...finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect, if you have to fight 'em twice a day. After you get their...
...also Victor Moore, the uncheerful cherub, the chubby Caspar Milquetoast, the Chamber-of-Commerce Charlie Chaplin, the Cupid of clowns who shoots straight for the heart. Victor Moore is the best reason why Leave It to Me! is a hit. Victor Moore is wonderful...
Experts creamily agreed last week that the sale was going quite well. Purchases after two days totted up to $242,000. Jacques Seligmann of Paris & Manhattan paid $19,000 for Bouchardon's slim, adolescent statue of Cupid, which the elder Schiff acquired...
...remained away for some 30 years. On his return, by which time she had been a widow and a wife again, he had told her his real name, revealed that while she had been contracting two marriages he had contracted 19, mostly to correspondents of a matrimonial publication called Cupid's Messenger. The two joined forces and Cupid's Messenger, thereafter, became the Hebner handbook. Mrs. Hebner advertised herself in it, left home temporarily to marry a Montana rancher whom she subsequently deserted as "too cranky." Mrs. Hebner advertised herself again, this time got herself a Putnam, Okla...