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...record of a voyage to Greenland made last year by Kent and two companions: the late Arthur Samuel Allen Jr., 22† and Lucian ("Cupid") Carey, 22. Their boat, the cutter Direction, 13 tons, 33 ft. over all, belonged to Allen's father. Allen was skipper, "Cupid" mate; Kent was cook and navigator. They sailed from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, June 17, made the coast of Greenland July 15. Twice on the way they were nearly wrecked. Allen was a good sailor, says Kent, but his judgment was poor. When they anchored in a little cove 40 miles from Godthaab...
...more than a decade after it was founded in 1900, Smart Set was a parlor table favorite with its familiar cover design of a man and woman coyly greeting each other while a cupid and black devil played havoc with their hearts. Its most startling upheaval occurred in 1914, after an enforced change of owners. Eltinge F. Warner, publisher of Field & Stream was made publisher and Mencken & Nathan found themselves editors. Under that regime many a now-famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered...
Every Manhattan news organ has now noticed this divorce broker. The small-town press has ballyhooed him in syndicated feature stories. Tabloid editors have gleefully plastered up headlines to the effect that Arturo del Toro is the "enemy of Cupid, the "king of divorce," the "boss of the Border bright lights...
...enemy of Cupid!" cried he last week. "I am the friend of Cupid- I give him another chance...
...Moore to his wife (Hilda Spong) who refers to him as "you horrible old man;" between the two there is an alternating current of abuse. Edna Best who plays Elsie Hilary is superior to Ina Claire in that she can deliver an epigram without tying her lips into a cupid's-bow knot; in some other respects she is her equal. The High Road is flawlessly cast and flawlessly acted...