Word: dido
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...store and heard the conversation of the concupiscent, the dialogues of the damned. And there I heard of Cartrack, even saw Cartrack, pour soul and I will never be at peace until her story is told, for to me Cartrack is anepic figure, a Helen far from Troy, a Dido unheralded and unsung...
...moon rising through the trees, and muses. "In such evenings! The student stands at his a night as this Troilus sighed his love toward the Grecian tents where Cressida lay. . . . In such a night did This-be fearfully o'ertrip the dew . . . In such a night stood Dido with a willow in her hand . . . . In such a night . . . . I'd mortgage my immortal soul to be free in such a night. Yet in such a night to be compelled to study! Ugh!" With murder in his heart he turns his back upon the moon, for that way madness lies...
...Tunis, regiments of workmen obeyed, more and less satisfactorily, the behests of many and various heads of a large Franco-American mobilization whose collective effort is being expended to uncover Carthage-home of Dido, Hannibal, Hamilcar-and contemporary towns of the Punic civilization, buried Utica, submerged Jerba-the lotus-eaters' island of the ancients...
...babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen Dido founded the city, is a prime target of the shovelers...
...long, lean, smiling chorus girl who is called W. R. Wister '27, and who is the son of Owen Wister, who wrote the first of the Pudding's musical comedies, "Dido and Aeneas". Since then Mr. Wister has written a number of other things, but none of more moment...