Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arts and Cleveland Museum of Art and Collectors Helen Clay Frick and William Randolph Hearst discovered that they were all supplied with the works of Sculptor Alceo Dossena in his varying moods. They knew them under a variety of other names and the smell the story aroused was not sweet (TIME...
...Poet O'Neil introduces an incongruous parade of vicious types, an interpolation wooden enough to make a 13th Century miracle play seem like a production by Noel Coward. All four sexes are represented, besides a Banker, a Society Boy, a Negro Poet, an Indian Lecturer, an Agitator, a Sweet Old Thing. It is not surprising that these, and his thrill-chasing wife, drive young Daniel to self-destruction as the curtain falls...
...collapsed. She survived Charles only by two years. Though her death has usually been attributed simply to "apoplexy," Biographer Bax cites a modern medical opinion that the real cause of her death was syphilis, hints that this too was a gift from her lavish royal lover. Bax calls Nell "sweet, merry, winsome. . . . We cannot say, though, that she was one of the world's most beautiful women." But he thinks "she would have enchanted any cocktail party or diplomatic reception of our time...
...Sweet Moon Song (that wasn't meant...
...turned over lazily as the Chapel bell tolled the hour, swung his feet to the floor, and rejoiced that it was over. Once again he could ascond the dizzy heights of his aesthotic seclusion, leaving the sordid world of men and Professors. He lighted a leisurely pipe, that first, sweet, fragrant pipe before breakfast. New-found freedom found him unprepared, a man lost in the aether with no ground under his feet. The gleaming morning sun flashed in rosy reflection from the gilt binding of a small book on the dusty shelves. Shelley, that was it! Now there...