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Besides sustenance, the lunches were meant to provide bright talk and character assassinations, and the hero of the day was the man with the fastest comeback. The circle also respetted good writing. Among young U.S. writers of the '20s and '30s, acceptance at the Round Table was an accolade second only to a publisher's acceptance...
...French-born interior decorator, Bouché grew up in Manhattan, ran an art gallery in his youth. During the '20s and '30s, he painted "miles and miles" of chic murals, which earned him a lot of money but little self-satisfaction. Today he concentrates on the minor easel-painting he is best at, and to teaching at Manhattan's Art Students League. Bouché's students are apt to be startled at first by such obiter dicta as: ¶ "Artists are multiplying to such an extent it's a national disease. Their terrific concern...
Wood's 20s coincided with those of the century. He spent them in a gay round of European travels with rich friends. "One must get all the pleasure out of life that is possible," he wrote his mother. "I suppose you couldn't possibly either send me my allowance in advance or lend me about 15 pounds so that I can square this beastly hotel off and get my things...
Fire licked down a wooden pier and set ablaze the old decommissioned transport tied in Baltimore harbor. Confiscated from Germany, a troop transport in two wars, a passenger liner in the '20s with a record of three groundings, three collisions, two murders, Prohibition raids and countless small fires, the George Washington, which carried Woodrow Wilson and a cargo of great hopes to the Versailles Peace Conference, was gutted beyond repair...
Born in Italy, Lucioni came to Manhattan at ten, discovered Vermont eight years later. He worked his way through art schools, made a business success of painting while still in his 20s. A rough-hewn bachelor with pink cheeks and thick grey hair, he winters in Greenwich Village, plays and sings snatches from operas for relaxation. In Vermont he lives with two sisters, raises all his own vegetables...