Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kipling saw a picture, painted by Burne-Jones and shocked the world of women's colleges by writing the "Vanipire". And then Theda Bara played it in the movies and shocked the rest of the world by saying, "Kiss me, my fool" to one of the funniest looking specimens ever decorated with the early editions of Form Fit Sartorial subtleties. But Kipling never reached the heights in that verse which he attained in "The Ladies". I fancy he never reached such heights anywhere else, and I've read all the verse he ever wrote, read it and re-read...
...Pope's library, a promenade interrupted by the greeting of the Swiss Guards and the gendarmes at the Vatican entrance, in the Court of St. Damascus, and in Clementine Hall. In the library the Cardinal started to fall on his knees at the Pope's feet to kiss the pontifical ring, but this the Pope prevented, embracing the Cardinal in fatherly affection...
...know why I ever married you. I'm going back to . . ." "Eddie Tilyou and his big-time melody boys will broadcast by special request 'Culoombia, the Chem of the . . ." "Quack, quack . . ." "Bryant 1840 . . ." "I guess you would like a girl to bow down and kiss your dirty foot whenever you treat her mean, but just lemme tell you . . ." "The shrine of each patriot's devotion . . .',' "Quack, quack . . ." "Not Bryant 1480! How many times should I say . . ." "If you ever lay your little finger on me again I'll holler. I mean it! . . ." "Quack . . . quack...
Perhaps the strangest of all gifts of three night wanderers to a child born on a Christmas Eve, are the cup, the pipe, and the kiss of "The Three Wise Men", by Jean Dumaux. Perhaps the strangest of all tellings of the old story, very gently, very gravely, very beautifully! Tramps in the night, a lonely barn, a refuge, a man and "the skirt", and a new born babe! Of these the story that every one knows is told, the story that every one knows by heart and in his heart...
...kiss of the sun for pardon...