Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ardent as he seemed. James Stevens (Minor Watson), the tweedy young family lawyer, meets the issue by claiming to be the prospective father. He has loved Joyce all along and now proposes marriage. She blissfully agrees, and has the girlish pleasure of telling him that she is still virgin. In the meantime a huge, philosophic iceman has similarly forgiven the errant housemaid and taken her to a priest. What he refers to as the "escopode" is thus nobly closed...
Called by Frenchmen "England's greatest poet," Algernon Charles Swinburne in the above lines described and addressed his friend and mistress, a U. S. woman, the late famed Adah Isaacs Menken. In her the poet was pleased to see a Pagan Virgin Mary, coming to crush the new, romantic Christianity, to revive old, lustful paganism...
...Western Union and A. T. & T. The great dream of business matchmakers and romantics begins with the nuptials of the two great T. & T.'s. In their imagination the romantics can already see the ceremony with two handsome groomsmen. Sosthenes Behn, tall, dark, native of the Virgin Islands, and Walter Sherman Gifford, slender, reserved, native of Salem, Mass. It is Mr. Gifford, although only 44, three years Col. Behn's junior, whom they see as godfather and president of the monster offspring, if and when born...
...that reason they parted. She went to the nothingness of forgotten characters, while Mayreder went on to his second and third loves. His second love was a virgin who consoled him and was about to introduce him to her father when Stasha, the third love, recently escaped from an insane asylum, snatched him up. The story ends when Mayreder, refusing to murder Dr. Karkos after Stasha specially requests him to do so, finds Stasha herself murdered by the doctor...
...whiskey & soda, she does the same. When he plays Negro jazz records on a phonograph, she sways all over. She looks at Molinoff "with the eyes of a little girl that wants to be played with." But Molinoff, woman's man that he is, will not play with a virgin. He is a Don Juan with a Russian soul. He has a Conscience that must burble out in a confession of his imposture to the first passing peasant. After a glorious triumph on the head of that imposture (presentation to the "future" Queen of France of Leon Daudet's royalists...