Word: janet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside, inside St. Margaret's, and not to watch as usual from outside the railings. No, "The Duke and Duchess of Romney request the pleasure of the company...
...Janet had married not only this house in Halkin Street, but also Wintersmoon with its Minstrel's Gallery, and Queen Elizabeth's bed, its three ghosts, its Spanish walk. But to Rosalind, Wintersmoon was merely the depths of Wiltshire: old house half shut up, woods, ponds, peacocks, Salisbury Plain in the distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that...
...found therein the more loneliness because her husband, passionately devoted to their small son, needed her less than ever. There was still Zanti, of the little curiosity shop, who dispensed philosophy to Janet much as he did, volumes ago (Fortitude, published 1913), to Peter Wescott. There was Peter himself, young and successful novelist. There was old John Beamister-Zoffany Club at a quarter to one precisely-who approved Janet's quiet dignity. More important, there was the Duke, benevolently white-haired, who knew the bitterness of Janet's love for his son. But none of these were enough...
Married. Miss Janet Kirby, daughter of famed Rollin Kirby, political cartoonist for the New York World; to Langdon W. Post, cinema critic of the New York Evening World and unsuccessful Democratic nominee for New York Assemblyman at last week's election; in Manhattan...
...racing; the sign of Gemini; a Poem by Witter Bynner; a businesslike forecast by Edward Streeter; a drawing by C.D. Batchelor; some Praise of Circuses by Earl Chapin May; a Portrait in Words by Gertrude Stein; and a sketch by Janet Smalley...