Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terse, brief, never wordy, sinning, if in any way, in the opposite degree. Let us set her up to begin with, a woman poet fittingly the cornerstone of our modern "Gentleman's Library." We can follow along then rather briskly with A. E. Housman, W. H. Davies, Hodgson, Robert Frost, de la Mare. They are conventional but they would have shocked the lady's father and grandfather. Then too there is Hardy, a link between three generations, the Victorian, the eighteen nineties, and the twentieth century. But only genuinely appreciated by our own age. Men like Hardy and Francis Thompson...
...Manhattan, in 1810, when Fifth Avenue was a woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
Likewise on Fifth Avenue, and just one block from Black, Starr & Frost is the retail store of the Rhode Island silver-&-goldsmiths, Gorham Manufacturing Co. For almost a century Gorham silver and gold has furnished U. S. dining rooms, churches. Gorham bronze has gone into the careful details of U. S. buildings...
Last week Black, Starr & Frost and its near neighbor, the Gorham store (not the Gorham manufacturing concern) were working out details of a merger, which obviously could not impair the traditions of either. Alfred & Co. are the bankers...
...near Belmont, he is always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost, no pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary vision of the vanished village of Cambridge: a moment affording a rare memory these days. To escape to the country now one must travel for thirty minutes in train...