Word: fitzgerald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scott Fitzgerald He Is Kindly...
...other evening at a dancing club a young man in a gray suit, soft shirt, loosely tied scarf, shook his tousled yellow hair engagingly, introduced me to the beautiful lady with whom he was dancing and sat down. They were Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Scott seems to have changed not one whit from the first time I met him at Princeton, when he was an eager undergraduate bent upon becoming a great author. He is still eager. He is still bent upon becoming a great author. He is at work now on a novel which his wife...
...valiant guardianship of Fitzgerald in front of the Cambridge Latin net was the one scintillating spot in the losers' play. The eight goals registered against him were largely due to the poor checking of his forwards and the utter futility of his outer defense. He was constantly peppered by the Crimson forwards, and he made several brilliant stops...
...gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst and the late Aubrey Beardsley. Hope Weston is more seriously thoughtful and mystic, in her endeavor "to visualize Khayyám as he appeared to his contemporaries-to study his mind before FitzGerald gilded his thoughts...
...FitzGerald gilded Omar Khayyám, and Elihu Vedder's now classic illustrations have regilded FitzGerald. Vedder is academic, imaginative, poetic, and about everything else that he ought to be under the circumstances, except Persian. He is Roman, but not romantic...