Word: decolletee
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Robert Nathan's last novel, They Went On Together, dealt with refugees being machine-gunned in one of those nameless countries which are Novelist Nathan's today's special. The Sea-Gull Cry is less portentous. A blonde young Polish countess is living in an abandoned scow...
Forced to think about Percy Bysshe Shelley, most people visualize something with wild hair, wild eyes, a decollete shirt, poised to intone: "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official...
In the evening Their Majesties, though it had been announced that Edward of Wales would perform the chore to spare his parents, held the first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker...
Singers had returned from between-season holidays, stages and canopies had been rebuilt, guarantors were glancing over their bank accounts last week as summer opera began in these cities: Cincinnati, In the Zoological Garden there is a covered auditorium through whose open sides one may gaze over green lawns and...
The last two pay court to the gaoler's daughter, Laetitia, a disturbing and extremely decollete presence in this penumbrous house. The poet learns some of the less poetical things about women when La Ruse's carnality triumphs over his own romanticizing. But even La Ruse feels it...