Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Coolidge, while he lived had no nickname, had no societies named after him, had no fan mail. He cared not for these-scholarship, his lecutres, his books, his missions, his duties as an editor and as director of the Widener Library, were enough. In them he had his life. In them he has his monument, more permanent than life...
...afternoon was far from wasted, though, for the heroine was Hizi Koyke, a real Japanese. Exquisite, like a figure on a fan, she showed with the swaying of her body, the fluttering of her tiny hands a hundred little emotions beyond the reach of human voice. Three years ago she came to Manhattan, a child with a pretty little voice pinched into an Oriental mould. Edythe Magee took her in hand, grafted an Occidental instrument there, one almost as captivating as the girl herself...
...What Price Glory?", the present attraction at the University Theatre for the whole week, has, of course been discussed before. Inevitably it is linked and compared with "The Big Parade," and many a movie fan has argued the side of one or the other as the greatest picture of the war ever produced...
...were prepared last week for the wide woman draped in metal cloth who fluttered on at the Palace, bowed low as if for great applause, smiling. Now, at 62, there was little voice, little vitality for a Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay...
...Iron Mask, the other life of Carlyle. All the things that were tongue transmitted because the tabloid was not yet. Louis VIII and Roosevelt ... Francis Joseph and Lord Northcliffe ... Joan of Arc and Jesse James ... all that was said by lips behind a gloved hand or an outspread fan. Why Victoria sent the young officer into the India service, the life and times of the President's Daughter, who paid Lieutenant Becker. How can what almost was be distinguished from what only might have been? Roosevelt and Rasputin ... Talleyrand and Billy the Kid ... the Women Lincoln Loved...