Word: elfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom heard outside the dogshow. If you are of a cheerful cast, however, you cannot but recognize much mother wit among the refuse, a native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman of traditions and talents, sees him off to the wars, straddles those jealous nags wifehood, motherhood and career, and comes a cropper...
...Pulitzer Poetry Prize, having changed publishers and been married during the Spring and Summer as well as having been operated upon for appendicitis, Edna St. Vincent Millay doubtless now enjoys her convalescence with something like complacency. I cannot, somehow, think of her as complacent, however. This delicate, elfish woman is as restless, as full of vitality as a wheat field on a windy...