Word: nymphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hesitant Nymph...
...Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65 (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr)? Cleone Knox ($2.50). A mettlesome Irish nymph's intimacies...
...where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...
...DIARY OF A YOUNG LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65.Cleone Knox (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr) Appleton ($2.50). The mettlesome Irish nymph of these confessions reveals herself teetering a-tiptoe upon the springboard of chastity in a day when only a very slight push was required to set a young thing splashing for dear life. Her papa removes her from the bold and importunate proximity of her enamored kinsman, David Ancaster, who has literally essayed to climb into her boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste...
...flash he becomes a little tiresome. Maurice Baring has produced another entertaining and delightfully written novel, "Cat's Cradle." "Suspense" is an unfinished novel by Joseph Conrad. David Garnett's "Sailor's Return," an amusing and well written story, describes strange events in a quiet English village. "The Constant Nymph" is one of the most pleasant and vivid stories that has appeared for some time, and will make everyone hope for more novels by Margaret Kennedy. D. H. Lawrence's "St. Mawr," Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves," and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" all seem to have their admirers...