Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild gestures with their great revolving arms, charged them in the name of his lady. Back he came with the necklace surrendered to him for the insane simplicity of his request, back to wed his Dulcinea who, kindly for a courtesan, sent him away, back into the forest to die. Florence Easton was Dulcinea, conscientiously seductive; Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful portly Sancho, himself a little mad. The opera, critics agreed, to be of little consequence, save for Massenet's unfailing craftsmanship; endowed with little real beauty, with many melodic bromides?all of which were forgotten in the magnificent impersonation...
...dinner, goes to Africa hunting pterodactyls. He encounters something big and snaky that might as well be a pterodactyl as anything else and shoots it, whereupon it sinks to the bottom of the river. Uncle Bliss catches malaria and goes home without it to England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting it impatiently, so that the nice English family in the story can solve their financial difficulties with his money. And the head of the nice family, after refusing to be Uncle Bliss' English agent (for he is Anglo-Saxon and independent) comes home from France...
...writing about people, about whom he knows too much, too much that will sell quickly to the popular magazines, ever to be able to settle down, to take the bumps with the best of them. Fitzgerald is The Rich Boy of literature for whom his mistress Money must die that he may be born again...
...shall know even when I die. I have made all arrangements so that the final illness which must come will be kept secret...
...lifts his hat with both hands--no, he is in the comedy. But they are all comedies? No--one is really tragic. For is it not tragedy which stalks in the contoritionist's soul as he leaps, jumps, hurls himself before Bebe's car--to die? Of course not. Contoritionists never die when automobiles hit them. They just confort. So she saved the fifty thousand dollars and the Boston lawyer quel homme! So droll, and with what a black...