Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural good spirits, the Vagabond has been feeling of late that the ruby of the sunset was only a garnet and the emerald of the sea was but green glass. He has suffered from the "weariness the fever, and the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan." He has sought comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing...
...Faithful, holiest of months is Ramadan when by command of the prophet no Mussulman may eat from dawn to sunset. Ramadan ended last week, spectacularly in three places...
...Strawherry" blondes use a brunette's paint pot to achieve something between a Texas sunset and "the steel mills by night" effect on the jowls and cheek hones. Eskimo brunettes are just about as successful with the raspberry, rabbit's-ear pink, peach and natural-blonde. And when the women with a will and a head of hair like the Alabama crimson tide white-wash the freckles and lay on a coat of orange-peel dust they are ready for the brickyards union...
...must let me call you so once more. Your more than kind, your generous letter touches me to the bottom of my heart. . . . For such little time as may be left for me, I shall treasure it as adding gold to the sunset...
...meeting Mr. Paul Shorey tried modern culture and found it dull. Americans are sexually inept, poets are crude, intellectually the country is dead. As a solace from this tedious period Mr. Shorey looked not to a refreshing dawn in the future, but preferred to gaze longingly at the roseate sunset of a halycon past. Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, and Emerson are the foundations of American culture the men to whom their countrymen must point with pride...