... in an age when all the deepest emotions can be successfully laughed out of existence by any decently educated person, the sanctity and importance of sudden death was a comforting and salutary thing, a last little rock, as it were, in the shifty sands of one's own standards and desires.
From the Book Dancers In Mourning, 1934, ISBN 1933397985
Copyright © 1934 by Doubleday and Company, Inc.
No. 7