Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There died in Lynchburg, Virginia the other day Mr. W.D. Diuguid, a man who, more than any hero of Poe, was dogged into his grave by an obsession. The fact that his name was a palindrome, that is, read the same backward as forward, changed the life of Mr. Diuguid. For palindromes, like Mary's lamb, followed him where'er he went, and since his only fortune was a modest undertaking business, this was not far. The only women who ever meant anything in his life were named Anna, Meem, and Hannah. It is therefore easy to understand...
...telephone him palindromes; he needed a telephoned eyeopener to bring him out of a thesaurus hangover from the night before. But Mr. Diuguid triumphed even in death, lingering until the eleventh month of his 77th year. It is a proof of our perverted sense of values that a life so dedicated should win only a posthumous notoriety on the front page of the New York Times...
...pleasing as she was in her other vehicle, but this is largely because she is left out of the wisecracking mentioned above. The part assigned her rives her by no means the opportunities she had when exchanging bon mots with June Walker. Love has come into the life of Elzy Everetts, played by William Boyd, and apparently this has disastrous effects on ex-gunmen. He and Harry C. Bannister divide the male honors in the cast, while Miss Hibbard as the sole feminine entrant is entitled to the wreath on her side...
Tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, Professor Maclagan will discourse on the life and works of Donatello. Both of these lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides, and will be open to the public...
...these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid of being "literary". Of the other contributors, not quite so much can be said. They play safe, they do not aim so high, and they fail, in consequence, to be very interesting. Life--one keeps thinking as one reads them--surely must mean more to them than this? And one turns back to the Dial, even in its wildest moments, with that sense of relief that one finds in the actual