Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank D. Fitzgerald, the incumbent, had lost...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD was named after his ancestor, the Baltimore attorney who wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner." F. Scott was born in St. Paul, Minn., 40 years ago. At Princeton he spent his first year writing a Triangle show, therefore flunked algebra, trig, and associated studies. The show was a hit. By tutoring during the summer, he successfully got back to Princeton the next year, and played a chorus girl in his show...
...left college to go to war, watched the excitement wild-eyed, as did Ernest Hemingway. His This Side of Paradise in 1920 was greeted as the first authentic novel of college life, a nervous, vibrant chronicle of post-war and youth and America. Like Hemingway, handsome active, neurotic Fitzgerald can be read in Esquire while the critics pronounce Fitzgerald and Hemingway no longer important to American literature...
...would probably privately concede that their States are in Franklin Roosevelt's bag. Of the three other Republican Governors, Buck has done little to win Delaware's three electoral votes, Hoffman is probably more of a hindrance than a help to the Republicans in New Jersey and Fitzgerald is engaged in a touch-&-go dogfight for Michigan...
Nursing a shoulder fractured two months ago in a springboard dive, on his 40th birthday Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was found in an Asheville, N. C. resort hotel by the New York Post. Jittery and moody, he moped about his hotelroom, rambled to his interviewer between drinks: "One is not waiting for the fadeout of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own Personality. . . . I lost my grip." Asked what he thought about the neurotics of the '20's whom he pictures in This Side of Paradise...