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The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

Vincent Starrett

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Vincent Starrett
Age: 87 †
Born: 1886
Born: September 26
Died: 1974
Died: January 4
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of Toronto
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett
Charles Vincent Starrett
Time
Colors
Yesterday
Glory
Glamor
Color
Gilt
Present
Prosaic
History
Sordid
Doe
Pipe
Always
Glamour

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