Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married: Reginald Vanderbilt, brother of Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Gloria Morgan, daughter of the American Minister to Holland, in New York...
...girls described by Mr. Fitzgerald may or may not have been true to life at the time he wrote his book. But once it was published and became the one unfailing topic of conversation for boys and girls it is noticeable the "Rosalind's" and "Gloria's" became suddenly all prevalent. The explanation may be that the younger generation had already a desire to be clever or fast or both but felt a certain timidity as to who to proceed. Mr. Fitzgerald merely showed them the way. Oscar Wilde, and the innumerable others,- who have held that life imitates...
...story, much of which would make good material for Eugene O'Neill at his bitterest, tells of the moral disintegration of Anthony Patch, and his wife Gloria. Anthony is our old friend Amory Blaine, now made for the sake of variety a Harvard man. Whether or not it is because of a change of Alma Mater, he is a little more consistently worthless than his Princeton prototype but otherwise he is the same. A good part of the novel is devoted to analyzing his character but for all this it seems to us that if Mr. Fitzgerald had described...
...tragic note that he falls a little--or even approaches absurdity. Since his first novel, Mr. Fitzgerald has joined the ranks of the "HaHa" school of ironists. He has made every effort, sometimes it seems through a natural perversity, to mock every one of the aspirations of his characters. Gloria desires above all to be thought clean and in the end she becomes unclean. The writer, Richard Carmel, does not intend to prostitute his art and finally he takes to writing best-sellers. Compared to the Fates of Mr. Fitzgerald, those conceived by Thomas Hardy are a trio of well...