Word: arpeggios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duly printed. Everywhere in the midwest people read it and groaned for the passing of manhood, seduced by the perfumed ways of a cinema fop. Over a hotel breakfast tray a closely muscled man, whose sombre skin was clouded with talcum and whose thick wrists tinkled with a perpetual arpeggio of fine gold bangles, read the effusion with rapidly mounting fury. Then he (Rudolph Valentino) wrote out and mailed to the Chicago Tribune editor a formal note. He said that he infinitely regretted that American statutes made illegal the honorable and historic duello. But he felt happy to be able...