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The Talking Ball Paddy Brennan: 1973 1974 Adventure Desperate Dawg George Martin 1973 1986 Humour Sir Coward De Custard Ken H. Harrison: 1973 1975 Humour Peter's Pocket Grandpa: Similar in theme to 1940s prose story entitled 'Jimmy's Pocket Grandpa' Ron Spencer 1975 1983 Humour Adventure Tom Tin and Buster Brass Jack Prout 1975 1976 Humour ...
Keyhole Kate was a 1930s British comic strip series in The Dandy. The strip featured a nosy young girl who liked to look through people's keyholes. She appeared in The Dandy ' s first issue, drawn by Allan Morley [1] back in 1937. She continued in The Dandy until 1955 and appeared as the cover strip of issue 295. [2]
Where a male dandy dresses with an almost feminine appeal and attention to detail, a woman dandy has masculine qualities in her appearance and attire. Greene uses examples of Rudolph Valentino, Marlene Dietrich, Prince Rogers Nelson and Lou von Salome as prototypical examples of male and female dandies. Rudolph Valentino was a male dancer and ...
The Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel Couples , by John Updike Aqua Erotica: 18 Erotic Stories for a Steamy Bath , by Mary Anne Mohanraj
David Harvey asserts that "Baudelaire would be torn the rest of his life between the stances of flâneur and dandy, a disengaged and cynical voyeur on the one hand, and man of the people who enters into the life of his subjects with passion on the other". [22] The observer–participant dialectic is evidenced in part by the dandy culture ...
Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...
The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.
The Bridal Party is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and featured in the Saturday Evening Post on August 9, 1930. The story is based on Ludlow Fowler's brother, Powell Fowler, May 1930 Paris wedding. It is Fitzgerald's first story dealing with the stock market crash and celebrates the end of the period when wealthy Americans ...