Word: geranium
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Significance. Geranium trees and alabaster cups?pickled walnuts and plovers' eggs?Darius Milhaud and Ouida?a patchwork of curious names, objects, personages, vices?a plate of literary antipasto, some pleasant, some a little stale. Somewhat affected, somewhat precious, quite amusing, though not nearly as delightful as Peter Whiffle, The Blind Bow-Boy reviews a facile display of intellectual fireworks from under the lacquered eyelids of a superficial sophistication. The fireworks squib out, the performance is over. There were too many pinwheels near the close, perhaps, and the shadow of Ronald Firbank had a way of straying across the scene...