Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife to your best friend!" A Viennese doctor and his wife try it. It's only because the locale is insouciant Vienna that shooting doesn't occur. The physician, rather unwillingly, becomes involved with a lecherous married woman, largely because his wife is jealous of the wrong girl. When the wife discovers how easy it is for a best friend to fall in love with her, peace is restored. "Sauce for the Goose" is snappily translated into "fifty-fifty." A sly hint is given of the temptations to which a fashionable doctor is subjected by lovely patients with...
LOVE ? AND THE PHILOSOPHER ? Marie Corelli?Doran ($2.00). The ingredients of this story are a "grim and selfish" philosopher, a poor and handsome young man, a pretty but sentimental girl. Also, there is the girl's father and the War. Of course the "grim and selfish" philosopher turns out to be not as grim and selfish as he was supposed to be, and the young man discovers that he is the heir to a great deal of money, and of course at the end there is a wedding. "Has my heroine chosen the right partner for life?" asks...
...know of no other American poet who has succeeded so subtly in combining real sentiment with the vernacular. His poems in slang have been at once beautiful, tender, well written. He has intuitive knowledge of the boy and girl of shop and street, their trials, their loves. If his play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
...ramping "into the uttermost parts of the earth." And now, like Oden's ravens he brings back tidings, not from all corners of the globe perhaps, but far more remarkable for a Cambridge foaled beast, from twelve states outside of New England! And the genius, his flowing robes girl up about his loins, his wreath becomingly arranged, his lyre attuned to the typewriter--raises the ante. The prize for the best word to describe a "dry" leaps from ten to twenty-five dollars...
...Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted the state of California on our mental map;" Richard Harding Davis "liked to think himself the Rough Rider of literature;" "Cissle Loftus?"a nice girl and needed the money;" Irene and Vernon Castle and the founding of "Castle House;" the long legs of Vernon Castle; a Spartan War-mother and a slacking son; the Shuberts?"mere striplings, dark-haired, dark-eyed and determined; a face three-quarters shot away; Belgians who refused to shoot...