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Wiki: "She entered one of her clerihews for a Spectator competition and won it, whereupon the editor invited her to set the next one."

Wiki: "That spring Woodgate’s long theatrical tradition reached its grand finale with an ambitious staging of the Tranby Croft scandal, a ludicrous affair that mesmerized Victorian society in the 1890s."

Wiki: "Constant, who had heard all about Tony’s dim view of Ireland, sent Violet a postcard of Burne-Jones’s Love and the Pilgrim, showing the luckless pilgrim being extracted from a bramble bog by the winged figure of Love."

Wiki: "... and an ambitious young Canadian architect, Wells Coates, currently making a name for himself with his Isokon building, a block of flats on Lawn Road in north London that proposed a revolution in urban living."

Wiki: "Those tastes had been drastically expanded and updated by an eye-opening revival of The Beggar’s Opera that Tony saw not long after its opening at the end of his first year at Eton."

Wiki: "Tony’s closest friend Henry Yorke remembered a stinking ham oozing clear smelly liquid, and boys so hungry they ate raw turnips and mangel wurzels from the farmer’s fields..."

DNF

05. An International Episode, 3 stars. Titled Englishman takes a liking to an educated American girl, worrying his relatives.
06. Europe, 4 stars. Hateful old woman takes immense pleasure in torturing her aging daughters with the dangling promise of a European vacation.
07. Fordham Castle, 3 stars. Unwanted husband and unfashionable mother are hidden away so their social climbing family can make better connections.

Wiki: "Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable street-cars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses."

01. Travelling Companions, 3 stars. Americans touring Italy bond over art, fall in love at the drop of a hat.
02. Madame de Mauves, 4 stars. American man falls for a woman married to a Frenchman, is put out by her iron self control.
03. Four Meetings, 4 stars. Poor woman longs to travel, gets taken advantage of immediately.
04. Daisy Miller, 3 stars. Unchaperoned woman causes a scandal by flirting with foreigners.

Word: "But Longmore felt like a marplot, and lingered only long enough to glance at the young man’s sketch, and to see it was a very clever rendering of the silvery stream and the vivid green rushes."

1. One who mars or defeats a plot or design by officious interference, or hinders the success of any undertaking. Said also of things.

Wiki: "These were mostly professional people and they were mostly rather hard up because of the big bank failure in 1907 or thereabouts."

01. Homunculus, 3 stars. Meditating a tiny but timid man into being.
02. An Otherworldly Examination, 3 stars. Man delays his deification to care for his elderly mother.
03. Living Dead, 3 stars. Man gets chased around by a recently dead girl.
04. Spitting Water, 3 stars. Woman hears a weird noise, dead lady spits her to death.
05. Talking Pupils, 3 stars. Perv chases after pretty girls, goes blind temporarily.

Wiki: "I seem to remember that, with that dress, she wore an immensely broad Leghorn hat – like the Chapeau de Paille of Rubens, only very white."

Wiki: "... David and I set out to traverse that arc of the Ridgeway which curves over the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, from the White Horse at Uffington past mysterious Silbury Hill and Avebury."

59. Artemis, The Honest Well Digger, 3 stars. Romantic man falls in love non-stop, is suspected of spycraft.
60. Three Stories, 3 stars. Fat belly details the efforts to be rid of it. Woman's husband/kids/new husband are all killed in car accidents. Beautiful woman on a plane coldly rejects attempts at conversation.
61. The Jewels of the Cabots, 3 stars. Assorted family events surrounding the theft of diamond rings.

Wiki: "The architecture of the church was Bullfinch with columns and one of those ethereal spires that must have dominated the landscape a century ago."

Word: "He supposed they were understandably wary of lushes, mashers, and bores."

1. Originally and chiefly U.S. A womanizer; a man who makes indecent sexual advances towards women, esp. in public places.

2. A fashionable young man of the late Victorian or Edwardian era, esp. one fond of the company of women; a dandy.

56. Another Story, 3 stars. Man's Italian friend is a big fan of America until he moves there with his American wife, doesn't assimilate very well.
57. Percy, 3 stars. One branch of the family tree is destroyed by thwarted artistic aspirations.
58. The Fourth Alarm, 3 stars. Husband doesn't know what to do with his life after his wife launches her career as a nude performer.

53. The Geometry of Love, 4 stars. Prompted by his wife's moodiness, unhappy man tries to apply geometry to live his life with serenity.
54. The Swimmer, 3 stars. Man decides to swim through all the neighborhood pools on the way home, has a feeling that his memory is unreliable.
55. The World of Apples, 3 stars. Old poet is horrified by the sudden surge of vulgarity in his work, resorts to dirty limericks.

49. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin, 2 stars. Man sees poetry written on marble bathroom walls.
50. Montraldo, 2 stars. Thief rents a room with an ocean view from two poor bickering women.
51. The Ocean, 3 stars. Man gets fired with a huge pension, alienates daughter, is repeatedly poisoned by wife.
52. Marito in Città, 3 stars. Husband fails to fend for himself while the wife and kids are away, screws a seamstress.

Word: "It was one of those places where lonely men eat seafood and read the afternoon newspapers and where, in spite of the bath of colored light and distant music, the atmosphere is distinctly contumacious."

1. Contemning and obstinately resisting authority; stubbornly perverse, insubordinate, rebellious. (Of persons and their actions.)

47. An Educated American Woman, 4 stars. Woman raised to be an intellectual marries a doormat, has no human feeling for anything but campaigns and causes.
48. Metamorphoses, 4 stars. Man pays the price for barging into a woman's office. Persuasive man is too obsessed with his loving wife. Snobby woman loses her family through stubborn priggishness. Newly self-righteous man replaces smoking with excessive drinking.

Wiki: "She had introduced the maxixe to Newport..."


Dancing the Maxixe (1915) by Walter Nelson

Wiki: "She had been a beauty, and had been painted by Paxton in the twenties."

Wiki: "He designed his own sailboat (it had a list to port), ran for mayor (he was defeated), bred a Finnish wolf bitch to a German shepherd dog (the American Kennel Club refused to list the breed), and organized a drag hunt in Bullet Park, where he lived with his charming wife and three children."

Wiki: "There were still a few yellow poppies under the apple tree and I’d identified them from one of Gertrude’s botany books and learnt that they were called meconopsis Cambrica and were natives of the mountains of western Europe, but sometimes found in valleys."

44. The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, 3 stars. Husband feels betrayed when a sexy neighbor only slept with him to get the key to his bomb shelter.
45. A Vision of the World, 3 stars. Fanciful fellow has a series of unrelated dreams featuring the same gibberish-Polish phrase.
46. Reunion, 4 stars. Boy is excited to see his deadbeat dad for the first time in a year, dad is only interested in humiliating waiters.

41. The Chimera, 2 stars. Browbeaten husband invents an imaginary troubled girlfriend so he can feel like the big strong man coming to save her.
42. The Seaside Houses, 3 stars. Miserable bastard isn't able to enjoy his family holiday in a depressing rental house with divorced guy energy.
43. The Angel of the Bridge, 3 stars. Callous man mocks his family's unreasonable fears, then comes down with a fear of bridges.