Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene in a Greenwich Village backyard where poets, press agents, and actresses talk their way to success among cocktails and tea. This man and woman are not idly and stupidly rebellious, but they are part and parcel of the world in which they live, trying as any sane person must, to find common sense in the current confusion of ideas and the steel clatter of the machine age. They go out into the world at the very hour of the funeral of the girl's mother; after a few years of married life, the girl, freer and less muddle-headed...
...first to try, nor the last. In 1922, a subsidy bill was presented to an extra session of Congress by President Harding in person. Talk killed it in the Senate...
...have taken part in many heated discussions about Madame Sans Gene and, knowing you have put many minds at ease in the past, I trust you will be able to enlighten me on this subject. Is there any accent on the last "e" in Gene? And did such a person ever exist or was she merely a fictitious character? I have digested dictionaries. Lives of Napoleon" and Encyclopedias and still remain in total darkness...
...lieutenant, of course, still swimming. That he never landed was due to Daisy's baffled withdrawal to the fleshly, marital mainland. Due also to Buchanan's disclosure that the mounds of gold were ill-got. Nonetheless, Yegg Gatsby remained Daisy's incorruptible dream, unpleasantly removed in person toward the close of the book by an accessory in oil-smeared dungarees...
That some men may occasionally achieve greatness or success without the advantage of a college training is no proof that the average individual would succeed as well nor that the gifted person would not have accomplished still more if college-trained...