Posts Tagged ‘F Scott Fitzgerald’

  July under the lee of the diamond mountain was a month of blanket nights and of warm, glowing days. John and Kismine were in love. He did not know that the little gold football (inscribed with the legend _Pro deo et patria et St. Mida_) which he had given her rested on a platinum…

  He returned to America in 1868, having been gone a little over two years. He had visited the capitals of twenty-two countries and talked with five emperors, eleven kings, three princes, a shah, a khan, and asultan. At that time Fitz-Norman estimated his own wealth at one billion dollars. One fact worked consistently against…

  Morning. As he awoke he perceived drowsily that the room had at the same moment become dense with sunlight. The ebony panels of one wall had slid aside on a sort of track, leaving his chamber half open tothe day. A large black man in a white uniform stood beside his bed. "Good-evening," muttered…

  John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades–a small town on the Mississippi River–for several generations. John’s father had held the amateur golf championship through many a heatedcontest; Mrs. Unger was known "from hot-box to hot-bed," as the local phrase went, for her political addresses; and young John…