Dinner and Portrait Plans with Dallas at the Blackstone
Dirk DeJong dines with Dallas O’Mara at the Blackstone, where the head waiter greets them and Dallas’s painterly talent shines in life drawing class. He probes her feelings, she teases his vanity, and they clash over romance and ambition as the night ends with a shared walk and a foreshadowed clash of desires.
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Blackstone
Dallas
Andre
Miss O'Mara
Lyric
Dirk
France
Paula
Ike Paula
H'M
Selina DeJong
Gene Moran
Sam Huebch
H’m
Dirk DeJong
Chicago
Pretty
Paris
Art Institute
Helen
Dallag
Ana
Gorgeoum
Wrigley Building
Adams Street
Venetian Bridge
Tarved
Fox Hunting Shapes North Shore Social Circle
Dirk witnesses a shift in values as Dallas O Mara and the North Shore crowd embrace fox hunting under Captain Stokes Beatty. The refined social scene, linked to wealth and status, clashes with the drab poverty Selina observes at the farm, revealing tensions between class and ambition. Paula Farnham’s promising liaison with Stokes Beatty highlights the era’s fashionable pursuit and its social stakes.
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Dallas O’mara
Selina
Aug Hempel
Dirk
North Shore
Lake Forest
Captain Stokes-Beatty
Stokes- Beatty
Farnham
Paula
Stormwood
Elizabeth and the bath misdialed telephone game
A three year old girl named Elizabeth loves make believe games especially playing telephones. Her grandmother uses a toy set to call Elizabeth for her bath but Elizabeth answers with a mischievous wrong number ending the game when summoned for bath.
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Elizabeth
Grocer Quarrel Over Fresh Eggs Sparks Transfer
A breeze customer asks for fresh eggs in a Reston era scene. The new grocer answers eggs must be fresh and useful, prompting the customer to storm off saying she will trade elsewhere. The brief exchange highlights shopkeepers insisting on freshness and customer frustration.
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Breeze
Reston. Tras
Battle Already Half Won in Mind to Contemplate
The note expresses a strong desire to know and understand, suggesting the battle is half won in the mind. It emphasizes mental resolve and the readiness to overcome difficulty through intention and focus.
Vicarious Glory Drives Paris Fashion at Longchamp
A fashion piece notes how the Paris haute monde draws attention not to the outfits of models but to Lady W’s dress at Longchamp. It explains vicarious glory as the motive behind fashion, with Longchamp as the daytime society stage and recent Belmont Park styles highlighting bright colors, feminine dresses, and missile-like tunics.
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Prince of Wales
Comtesse de X
Paris
Longchamp
Patou
Lanvin
Cannes
Monte Carlo
Opera
Lady W
New York Werald-Tribune
Haute Monde
Babe” Ruth
Suzanne Lenglen
Helen Wills
Napoleons
Joans
France
Gwendolyn O Robinson
Moncure Robinson
New York
Senor Martin de Alzaga
Bols de Rose
Belmont Park
United Hunts
Milady
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England
Kansas
Nebraska
Dallas O'Mara
North Shore Society
Mrs. Robinson Gilman
Florentine
All America
Europe
Green
Navy
Wool Rep
Renee
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