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They knew her not as Alice, but more romantically as Kiki. Though she was flamboyantly real and fabulously full-blown, she was to most of the artists, revolutionaries, Babbitts, drunkards and dreamers more a symbol than a person. To the tortuous '20s in Paris, Kiki was what George du Maurier's lovely, fictional Trilby (whose tiny feet were called the most beautiful in the Quarter) had been to a former generation of Bohemians. Nobody ever looked at Kiki's feet...
James A. Stillman, late National City Banker, heir to millions, and co-star of one of the gamiest divorce suits of the '20s, turned out to have died deep in debt. Stillman and wife "Fifi" charged each other with offside parenthood-she by an Indian guide, he by a chorus girl. She got the divorce, promptly married Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick. A New York estate tax appraisal last week: Stillman owned $875,745, owed $1,079,539. Notable debt: $362,848 to the four Stillman children for their support...
...these and many other medicines was Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., fast-talking, energetic president and general manager. Modie Spiegel took over the 80-year-old family business in 1932, when it was deep in Depression trouble. Annual sales had dropped from a $20 million peak in the booming '20s to a disastrous $7 million. Losses since 1929 had been $2.6 million...
...true overtones of art. Perhaps it suggests that a circus is but a smaller version of the world, and as misleadingly gay a one; perhaps it shows how people love to dramatize pain, how grossness is always buying up beauty. But none of this, is new, whatever the '20s had thought, and it is not made compelling. It is only, at its best, made spectacular...
Most tenants who bought into co-ops did so with their eyes open. They knew that most of those who invested in co-ops in the '20s lost their money when land values slumped. In spite of more limited liability today, they still stand to lose everything they put in if they overstay the market. But they go ahead anyway. The necessities of housing have become more important than the economics...