Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play, which he played quite without fault (Cf. Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday," Mermaid edition). Cats are great favorites with him; he has been known to spend five or ten minutes at a stretch gazing into the eyes of his tabby while it sits in his lap. Just love, apparently. Crayon-drawings of past cats in his life stood about the Head Tutor's rooms in Eliot House for the two years of his incumbency...
...admirer has taken a bungalow for him in the exotic colony of Alta Vista, introduces him to all of Alta Vista's queer characters. Before any of them can say "Roanoke," Caslon has them all in a book, finds that they are his characters. He falls hopelessly in love with Sylvia, and she does him a favor, but she remains devoted to her surly absentee husband. Sinister Mrs. Forgate, who has a reputation as a husband-poisoner, watches with a cold eye the passionate friendship between her gigolo Antonio and the Keatsian poet Dacbe. Lad Greengable, godlike lifeguard with...
...Greengable goes off to Europe to drown his love for Sylvia in dissipation. Jacqueline puts her discords into music. Sol has the happy thought of poisoning his wife; unfortunately he overindulges and she dies. Angela discovers a simple soul who believes he is Jesus; under her tutelage he acts the part. Arthur Brisbane writes: "So Jesus has returned! Millions all over the world will welcome the news. Other millions will wonder what He is going to do about international debts, politics, taxes, love, prohibition and the grasping public utilities. But whatever happens, you may rest assured that California, as usual...
...shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh...
Talbot met his wife in PerUj where she was living with her father, the British Minister. It was love at third sight; they went back to England, properly chaperoned, to get married. Rawboned Violet was no less characterful than Talbot, and even on this first trip they had stormy times. But she never tried to domesticate him. Soon after marriage they went off to Burma and the Malay Archipelago to find new types of orchid. When the Great War came, Talbot, too old for active service, got a coast guard job cruising off Ireland; they bought a house and settled...