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...times reminiscent of Cytherea. Thus: "Tony [a youth] drew Angela to him, murmuring huskily. Her eyes were rich with invitation and desire. She resisted him, not only with her white arms, but with all her will, crying softly: 'Don't, Tony! Oh don't, dear boy!' But she was a gardenia, soft and lush and pale-not a very suitable flower when it came to resistance. She thought of her age, and of her husband's: Tony was young- fresh, strong, familiar young arms- clean, rugged young face-hot misguided youth!-It was too much...
...stands "the ele gant and commodious residence of Charles O. Gaar? the mansion sur rounded by 14 acres of beautifully decorated grounds and containing four bathrooms." As a result, during one battling week at boarding school, Gaar's 16-year -old son "Blacky" was "elegant" and " commodious," and a boy from Hartford made "a ribald sketch of him looped through four bathtubs." He fought it all; but the goading sense of his new-rich family's vulgarity, he, being made of finer stuff, could not quite down...
...drawing-room, an accomplishment probably not included in every prima donna repertoire. It always rouses my friends to shrieks of laughter to see me do this, but thus far I have found none of them able to follow my lead." "Wearing the knee breeches of Octavian (a boy's part in Der Rosenkavalier) as they should be worn, worried me ... I am the farthest removed from being 'mannish' that a woman possibly could be. I practiced standing and sitting and moving about in my knee breeches, and walked miles in my room before I reached the point
...Hearst, who went to the public school when he was a boy, and took charge of the San Francisco Examiner, as owner, the moment he left college, believes that boys should work...
...quick, strong and clever; Pancho was quicker, stronger and cleverer. The Terror would rush in and shoot his fists out with a snappy jerk, but those fists seldom hit anything except thin air. The sullen brown boy was .like a flea on hot bricks. He fought with his body close to the floor, thus reducing his five ft. one inch to something under three ft. As the big Bud approached, Pancho would spring into the air, punching, pounding and pulverizing that unfortunate Terror from Terre Haute...