Word: idler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bergerac, have gained an inkling of what 17th Century France was like. For swaggering, fork-tongued Gascon Cyrano actually lived, and in those melodramatic days. The Rogers biography reveals the real Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55) as "swordsman-libertine-man-of-letters." Author of Walt Whitman the Magnificent Idler, Biographer Rogers now finds his pen cluttered at every turn with a man whose short, quick-tempered life-rhythm was the polar opposite of Old Walt's. Cyrano's nose was "long, high-bridged, and bony, curved like a Moorish sword-blade, somewhat cleft at the extremity, and immensely...
...become an ample idler; he took pictures, thousands of them. He had always believed that photography was a medium of art which could be as sensitive, as interpretative as painting, etching or engraving. Out of the confused mass of forms in the visible world he selected serene or startling shapes and contours, the tense grace of sewing fingers, the slopes and rotundities of the nude. These he rendered with the infinite photographic spectrum, ranging from dead white to midnight blackness through numberless greys, catching both gleams and shadows. Sometimes he intellectualized this sensuous process, as in his symbolic expression...
...Villon is not wax, nor is his fifteenth century Paris papier mache. Himself a man of energy, contemptuous of hot-house estheticism (which he flays in his Dedication and Preface, not the least stimulating portions of the book), he presents a three-dimensional, unsentimental Villon, a sensual idler and criminal, weak, mercurial, but possessed of four stable virtues-faith, patriotism, filial love, gratitude. Somewhere this man's tortured, gusty spirit was luminous with great poetry...
...Dramatic Club, G. W. Harrington '30, vice-president, K. A. Perry '28, John Swope '30, F. K. Smith '29, T. B. Quigley '29, and J. H. Morris '29, Princeton will be represented by Bretaigne Windast, president of the Theatre Intime, Erik Barnouw, and others. From the Radcliffe Idler Society, there will be at Falmouth, Francis Small, former president. Margaret Cook, President of the Idler, and several others. Smith and Vassar will be represented by Miss Elizabeth Schauffler and Miss Eleanor Phelps respectively...
Captain Corrigan then formed a partnership with the late Judge Stevenson Burke of Cleveland to make steel. They prospered, but in 1900 tragedy overtook Corrigan when his yacht Idler sank in Lake Erie, and Mrs. Corrigan, three daughters and a grandchild were drowned...