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...Stock Exchange, a director of Western railroads, New Jersey public utilities. During the war he established a Liberty Loan office, sold innumerable bonds. His dynamic existence takes him twice a year to France. He chases over the fairways at St. Cloud, chases to art collectors, buys with zest. With him goes the gracious Mrs. Dale, herself a painter of stage decorations, a writer of cogent art criticism. In three years they have gathered more than 300 modern French paintings, from the glossy classicism of David to the vaporous prettiness of Marie Laurencin...
...receive eulogies or brick-bats. Such an inclusively important feature of the fall could not be disregarded. It will not be. The gamble of the ticket draw and the subsequent seats in the wooden stands are minor hazards that will affect only the undergraduates. They add actually to the zest of the occasion. A remote view of the game is not sufficient to sour enthusiasm for the rest of the week...
Edwardian. This son, Nicholas, married a spirited girl who brought to Babyon Court a virile zest for life, but lost it in the murky shadows of the portrait gallery. Frightened by the black sneer of Hariot and Isabella, she rushed from the gallery, fell stumbling down the broad staircase, and lost her unborn child. She never had another, for Nicholas, last of the Babyons, was old and bitter and resigned, given to eerie moods...
...carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
...Four years ago the famed old man, Eleutherios Venizelos, surprised Greeks announcing his retirement (TIME, 17, 1924). Followed a recuperative period spent at various European spas. Then smart Parisians were made merry by the apparition of a Venizelos once more sprightly and impeccably dandified. He sipped champagne with a zest smacked of youth. He popped in and out of limousines with ladies. He spent some of the money of his rich new Greek wife. And then, came sudden reaction. The Great Man retired to Crete, the island of his birth. He would, he said, translate and edit the works...