Word: elysian
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...Walking Elysian fields the saints forget The salt of human tears. . . . Only Saint Anthony can never rest...
...setting, supposed to be the Elysian Fields, looks like an old-fashioned cut-out valentine with harp strings on one side and a foot bridge across the middle. There Helen and Achilles sit and sing love duets. An old fisherman comes by. convinces Helen that no love can last forever. She sends Achilles back to the other ghosts, stretches herself out to die. A younger fisherman appears. After he dances vigorously for her, the incurable Helen decides to try again...
...body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together between the letters of LIFE, the whole against an elysian landscape...
...young professional, his romance begins when he agrees to give lessons to a pretty girl and comes to its proper conclusion when she beats a rival in love and .port. The story winds happily about the verandas, hallways, fairways and even the ladies' dressing room in an Elysian country club, encouraged by nymphs of whom none have passed the age of indiscretion, all dancing to Henderson, Brown & de Sylvan melodies...
...afternoon of July 30, 1844, John C. Stevens, on his yacht Gimcrack in the New York harbor off the Battery, met a group of men including John C. Jay, George L. Schuyler, James M. Waterbury and founded the New York Yacht Club. Its first clubhouse nestled on Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J. Its present home on West 44th Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships...