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...with the spiritual power of that world of dreams where men are gods and women are divine--the modern poet tosses his spurs into the air, Pegasus into the clouds, and scales Mt. Olympus with a step-ladder. From one of the current magazines flows fanciful and free the fairest flickers of such fervent fluttering--and there are these delightful lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MUSE AMUSES | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

...gentleman, Paris, who later alienated the affections of Menelaus' wife, was made to choose among three ladies, Hera, Athene and Aphrodite, was last week reversed: Pennsylvania had her choice of three gentlemen. As the three ladies respectively made Paris an offering of power, of martial glory and of the fairest woman on earth, so the three gentlemen each made an offer. Mr. Pepper came offering the glory of supporting the Administration. Mr. Pinchot offered the fierce pleasure of fighting for bone-dry prohibition. Mr. Vare offered the most inspiring of beverages?beer and wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Golden Apple | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

Lady Diana. Chicagoans marveled at the beauty of Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Duff-Cooper, understood why Britain pets and serves her as its fairest daughter. A slip of a woman in her early thirties, colored in delicate pastel, she sustains the fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In Chicago | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...girls are fairest, fools funniest and the music best at: The Cocoanuts, Artists and Models, Princess Flavia, The Student Prince, The Vagabond King, Sunny, Rose-Marie, Chariot's Revue, No, No, Nanette and Greenwich Village Follies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jan. 4, 1926 | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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