Word: leda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their youth. As a result Raymond Holden's Chance Has A Whip emerges as particularly refreshing, with at least one extended section that is calculated to remain long in readers' memories. The grand passion in Hendrick Fillmore's life is his love for beautiful, dark-eyed Leda Putnam, daughter of the founder of the Buffalo steel company of which Hendrick is secretary. With two children of his own, and a sharp-tongued wife, Hendrick is in no position cheerfully to surrender himself to his passion. In addition to these barriers, Leda runs away from him when...
...older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids...
...other claims to fame besides being a minor character in Joyce's Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty is also no mean versifier, occasionally no mean poet. His version of the old tale of Leda (originally printed in the Atlantic Monthly) is very Irish. One stanza: Of the tales that daughters...
Often very odd; Leda's was a story...
RETROSPECT-Aldous Huxley-Double-day, Doran ($2.50). Fourteen hundred pages of Author Huxley's reprinted prose & verse, including Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Leda...