Word: romanticist
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...only left his mark on his time, but had erected monuments and written books to perpetuate and explain his career. His "singing tower," where the drowsy carillon tintinnabulates at sunset as bony red flamingos fly home ward, was the final gesture of an unusually self-conscious romanticist. Other gestures which followed his retirement in 1919 from the editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal...
...soft formality of that statement expresses something in Commander Byrd which the press, while hailing his exploits scientific and otherwise, has found it hard to understand. Byrd the explorer, Byrd the grown-up Boy Scout, have obscured Byrd the romanticist, who now, in his wife's name, is recorded on the map of the world...
...Romanticist: But you forget that the terrific outlay on gown of the modern girl is, in the long run, more than equivalent to the sums which the boy friend spends...
...Romanticist: The result of which is less dates...
...Romanticist: I don't know about that, and anyhow that isn't the way the girl figures...Besides, there's something else, the most important thing, in fact... We're not living in the age of chivalry, but when I go out, part of the fun is in knowing that I'm doing the escorting. Don't deny it, you feel that way yourself...