Word: loveliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slovenliest man in all Britain writes some of its loveliest prose. Lord Dunsany takes childish pride in the sag of his coat and the splay of his collar, what time he gets lost on a golden road to nowhere, beholding faery sights. Shadows are among his specialties. For The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) he invented a whole zone of twilight, where unicorns browsed and cabbage-roots were thunderbolts. Now he writes of a crone, cheated of her shadow by a magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood...
...winning a husband is examined in this comedy. Two lonely females pretend they are married, seeking behind this pretense men with millions. To their dismay the principal prospect turns out to be a fifty-cent tailor. Later they locate their fated loves. Miss Logan, always one of the loveliest of stars and Miss Fazenda, returning to her frantic low comedy methods of the early days, performed pleasantly...
Engaged. Charles H. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co. (meat, glue, fertilizer, gelatin, wool, leather, soap); to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano (Metropolitan and Chicago Opera, recently in concert). In Chicago she said: "American men are the loveliest to marry...
...verse of some allegory) which John Earl of Bridgewater wished to grace some festivities, Milton complied with a "Masque presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634," long since known as Comus. This masque so casually written to order, printed in 1637 without even the author's name, is one of the loveliest poems written in English and perhaps the best of Milton's minor works. Valued little at printing, its first (1637) edition last week at auction in Manhattan brought $21,500. Book Agent Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, always quietly stubborn in bidding for a book he wants...
Bride of the Storm is a pretty bad melodrama about a girl who was stranded on a distant reef inhabited by horrible men with bad ideas. She is rescued by a lovely young lieutenant, and none too soon you may be sure. Dolores Costello, loveliest and latest discovery among actresses, is wasted in the part...