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...cold but irascible disposition and no charm. Melton knew nothing when she married him, but she learned fast, soon scared Julius with threats of scandal into letting her live a fairly independent life. They shared the same house, but inhabited different parts of it. Some nights Julius gave stag dinners. Other nights Melton held her salon. Melton's devotees, calling themselves sophisticates, had a high old intellectual time; despised Julius, thought Melton the world's most wonderful woman...
...summoned the concierge, broke down the door. The studio was dark, deserted. They broke into the bedroom. The shades were down; it took them a minute to realize what had happened. Pascin had slashed his wrists with a razor. Blood spurted over the room but Death came slowly. He stag gered to the wall, scrawled AU REVOIR LUCY in blood with a gory finger, knotted a cord round his throat and hung himself from the doorknob...
...pleasures of living"; his hate for Prohibition, reformers, censors, etc. etc. He enjoys referring to himself as "this bristle-whiskered old sodbuster." to his wife as "the henna-haired heckler." or "my weazened old Red Head." He relishes a reputation as a benevolent reprobate. His glory is a stag party. Famously hospitable. Publisher Fawcett built a lodge in the wilderness on the shores: of Pelican Lake, 170 mi. west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been Vice President Charles Curtis & son). But they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point...
...head tutor has nonchalantly spoken of the former as: "Sable, three blunted darts, one in pale and two in saltire, held in a hand couped at the wrist, all in argent. Crest, a stag's head caboosed, or with a pheon azure between the attires. Motto, Occasionem Cogosce...
Good shots: Lincoln dancing with his future wife at a party where Stephen Arnold Douglas is the leading stag; Lincoln called home to supper by his children just as he is receiving the presidential nomination in his Springfield law-office; Lincoln telling his cabinet he is going to take Fort Sumter; Lincoln walking in the White House halls in his stocking feet because he has insomnia; a long line of telegraphers getting despatches from the fighting line; General Philip Henry Sheridan and his staff in their wild gallop to reorganize their broken army cutting, in a flash of steel...