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...from Lapland to Antartica have taken their fling at this country; vocabularies have been thumbed over and over for new phrases of vituperation; Uncle Sam is a spendthrift, a miser, a coward, a bully, a fat capitalist, a lean prude. But that he should be pictured as a seductive satyr piping innocent nymphs down the primrose path is hard to believe. Now, however, Senora Doloras Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made keen observation of American morals", and gives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNCLE SATAN | 3/31/1928 | See Source »

...teddy-bears and geese; Come, Peaches, can you care for these? A puppy dog, an alligator-- I'm just a lovable old satyr...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Grand Street Follies (Third Edition). The Neighborhood Players will not dim the glitter of their reputations by the third edition of their follies. A purification committee inspects Manhattan's entertainments and, in a series of plays within the play, one gets a satyr's-eye view of the season's theatricals. The items include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 29, 1925 | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...once evokes briefly the feeling of dreams fascinating because too tenuous for sharp perception. And after the last, I find lost among the pages of proof given me for review, "Farewell Chorus" by Howard Doughty quite sure in technical command except for a jarring rhyme of "patter" and "Satyr" for which he should be drawn and quartered if not burnt at the stake. Within the form, however, lives much natural beauty that realizes the Pagan life for which young poets cannot help being wistful

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE PROSE IS POETRY SAYS CODE | 1/22/1925 | See Source »

...excel in tragic parts. His round, snub-nosed face was made for mirth, especially its wide, thin-lipped mouth, which even in repose is curved like a jocose crescent. When De Luca sings, he grimaces in such a way that his mouth carries the leer of a laughing satyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beethoven Notebooks | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

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