Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corners off" by making her "knock about" with other children. But Halcyon refuses to be either comforted or tamed. Her sophistication is more than a pose. Her tweedy, game-crazy playmates she finds hopelessly dull. Then suddenly, while moping one day in the ruins of Beaulieu Abbey, she meets Eden Herring...
...efforts to separate them they, like bits of quicksilver, run together again. After a bevy of tender, and to their elders, scandalous escapades, during one of which they even manage to spend an innocent night together in an empty house; after Halcyon turns her hand to the drama, and Eden makes a name acting in her hopeless play, the two children, for all their frequent scrapping, come to marriageable terms. Wringing a grudging consent from their parents they set off on their honeymoon. Their trials and tribulations on their wedding night, their subsequent reconciliation in a hall-bedroom not included...
...myth that says Capital is an angel with a flaming sword who keeps Labor out of Eden really means that capitalists are a sharp and greedy lot who fool the laborers...
...postcard form for handy mailing from "Bilgray's Tropic Bar & Restaurant": Babylonian Grape Brandy, Ice from the crest of Mount Sinai, Lemon from the desert of Sin, Gomorrha and Sodom Vermouth, Rum aged in Noah's Ark, Add Cain's Syrup from the garden of Eden, You then give it the Hebrew shake, and Say Hallelujah after drinking...
...Successor to the more famed Eden Musee which ran for 30 years in Manhattan's West 2nd Street and was among the first cinema exhibitors (Bluebeard, in color). Most famed of all wax works, Madame Tussaud's in London, burned...