Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...free at once without waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition...
...life Christmas has been the same. The same friends, the same gifts that didn't mean anything. Telling people things you didn't mean...
Isadora Duncan was one of those people upon whom life showers a fountain of adventurous fire. In her native U. S., when she sang the Marseillaise and did a classic dance, she was a triumph equally in Manhattan and in the dusty villages of the West. In Europe she attained a high degree of notoriety by refusing to become the mistress of famed Gabriel d'Annunzio; but despite her dislike, frequently made manifest, for the convention of marriage, she permitted herself to be wedded by noted Russian Poet Sergei Yessenin. Their marriage was as brief as a liaison...
...Author, Dancer Duncan, was born in 1880. Her life shows equally the influence of iced oysters, champagne, and her uneasy but auspicious star. Having composed this detailed and candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving...
...Significance. Dancer Duncan was born in 1880. As a work of literature the story of her life has merely the merits of explicitness and sincerity. These merits, inherit in the autobiography of a talented, bizarre, intelligent, beautiful and scandalously extraordinary woman, are enough to make such an autobiography a dazzling confusion of testament and tabloid true story...