Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Platte, Neb., one George St. Clair, 22, strangled his 18-year-old wife, said...
Critic Huneker's day was already dead. The shades of Europe's mauve decade had become old-fashioned memories; Huneker's men of the hour were but ghosts. It is significant that not a single subject of these selected essays was a U. S. citizen. "Essentially and inescapably civilized" is what Editor Mencken calls Critic Huneker, by way of congratulating him on being, in effect, European...
...died James Gibbons Huneker. Prohibition, as Editor Henry Louis Mencken not irrelevantly announces in the introduction, "was one year and twenty-one days old...
...honor. A fascinating girl fascinates three young men who are all agog to be fascinated. A fascinating older woman fascinates an older man and then leaves him, fascinatingly, for his good. A fascinating but somewhat irregular lady of doubtful age fascinates a young man, re-fascinates one of her old beaux, who steps in to rescue the fascinated young man?...
...appeared to its writer a thesis wholly fit to commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit of gay illusions. King Alfgar dreams of a witch. He sacrifices his kingdom to wander up and down the land in search of her, in which occupation he grows old. In the end he marries the witch, is rejuvenated, dies. To his publisher...