Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HELEN M. FERREE...
...yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from the needle of a woman named Helen Pascal...
Then it is Helen who is more inclined to look with favor on Orestes than is Menelaus-and Hermione grows jealous, for Helen is still Helen. The last scene is laid as Telemachus comes to the house seeking tidings of his father, Odysseus. Helen gives him a cup of wine. "He took it from her, his hand touched hers, and she smiled at him. It was as she had said; he forgot all his sorrows-as it seemed, forever. But the magic, he knew, was not in the wine...
About ten years ago Mr. Erskine published a work entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent. His portrait of Helen is of a woman who believes in the moral obligation to be intelligent and who suffers from the natural obligation of being beautiful...
...PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OF TROY-John Erskine-Bobba-Merrill...