Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...
...Beerbohm is nearly 51 years of age. Educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, he has since dabbled with the fine arts and literature. A great lover of Italy, he spends much of his time at his villa (Villino Chiaro) at Rapallo...
...hand made paper and bound in full French levant with gold tooling. The Ricardi Press "Rupert Brooke", bound in 3-4 French levant and printed on hand made paper; Shelley's "Lyrical Poems", beautifully printed and sumptuously bound; these and many others will delight the eye of the book lover and connoisseur...
...competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...
King Christian, who is 52, married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg on April 26,1898. He ascended he throne on the death of his father, Frederik VIII, in 1912. The King Is a great lover of sport, particularly ice yachting and horseback riding. Mounted on his favorite steed, he is a familiar figure to all classes of people who see him almost daily riding in the capital...