Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daughter of a rich California family, Caroline was early made a globetrotter by her restless mother. In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend. When Maggie married dashing Buck Dawson, British naval officer, Caroline followed her friend to England. While she watched the...
His picture-tale of life and love among the acrobats has a heroine but no hero. She is a hard-working trapeze artist, muscular but buxomly beautiful. Her partner, who is no relation but who acts consistently as a big brother to her, is an enormous fellow with a dumbly...
Almost every school or college has some sort of "honor system." In some it is a living thing which the students cherish and preserve by strict self-discipline. In many, however, it is an outworn symbol of the "romantic" period of the late nineteenth century, greatly stressed by headmasters in...
In Manhattan newspapers one morning last week burst a story romantic, unconfirmed, yet weighted with authoritative detail: potent Pan American Airways, Inc. was negotiating with Great Britain's Imperial Airways, Ltd. to form a three-day transatlantic air service via Bermuda and the Azores.
These 16 stories and sketches, written in romantic turn-of-the-Century style, are based on incidents of Dr. Munthe's early career as an interne in Paris, a doctor in Naples. Italy is Dr. Munthe's love, and even his Parisian subjects are Italians in exile: Hurdygurdler Don Gaetano...