Word: beardsley
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...Tales, which were shipped to customers by sly express, to Beau which contained advertising from eminently respectable tradesmen, such as Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. (collars, shirts) and Levy Bros. & Adler-Rochester (good suitings). Casanova Jr.'s Tales, edited by one Francis Page, advertised stimulating material by Aubrey Beardsley, Catulle Mendès and Casanova himself ("hitherto obtainable only in editions costing from $50 to $500"). It republished My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that these charming revelations had been admired by H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and suppressed both here and abroad. Two Worlds, braving the mails...
...half, B width brawl. But nothing transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about in tabloid newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn...
...into touch with French pornographic writing. Formerly, sex in literature was more or less restricted to intellectuals. Save for an occasional surreptitious exception the literature of the multitudes was as chaste as an Horatio Alger Jr. or a Mary Jane Holmes could make it. Who outside the intelligentsia read Beardsley, Beaudelaise, or could understand the more esoteric work of Whitman...
With a pomegranate in one hand and a green carnation in my buttonhole I am going to the Semitic Museum at 10 o'clock. Professor Lowes has reached the dim and yeasty 'nineties in English 26, and he will talk this morning on Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, the two gaily mad and sadly gay giants of the fin de siecle...
...Lang, Edmund Gosse, Wells, Shaw, F. Hopkinson Smith ("whom I never could stand personally, or his writings either"). He has told why he was asked to write Whistler's biography; how he came to introduce to the world of art that very pale and precious exquisite, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley...