Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauties in gold one-pieces. Or the five most beautiful girls who have appeared in the Police Gazette this summer. Possibly they were certain muses: the Winter Garden is an authority on muses. Anyway, the curtain lasted only for a moment and didn't deserve half the space we've given...
...America, is a sort of recreant European." But with Hawthorne, Poe, etc.. American literature came to " a real verge." " It's high time now that someone came to life out of the swaddled infant of truth that America spawned some time back," he remarks with naïve condescension. So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital...
...there seems no reason why I should not write a few words concerning my friend and collaborator, Stephen Vincent Benét. Logrolling? If you wish, you may call it that. I've often told the story of our first meeting at Yale, when he was a Freshman and I was a Sophomore, and I sought him out in the top floor of a gloomy dormitory where he was gayly pitching pennies of a Winter afternoon. Shortly after that, S. V. B. published his first book of poems. Since then he has published two others and three novels. Until his latest...
...Estanislas S. Zeballos, Argentine lawyer-statesman, now on a speaking tour in the U. S., finds that country very ignorant of Latin American affairs. He told of a letter he had received from the late Theodore Roosevelt: "Even the great Teddy addressed me as 'Senator,' when I've never been anything below the rank of a Cabinet Minister in my life, and, to cap the climax, my letter bore the destination of Buenos Aires, Brazil...
...like the job I've...