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Three children on the front stairs of a building in New York, wearing masks.

[|//New York//] ca. 1942, printed later [| Helen Levitt] Smithsonian American Art Museum 1984.16.4

//**__The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald__**//
pages : chapter 3 -"The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something—most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning—and one day I found what it was. When we were on a house-party together up in Warwick, she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it—and suddenly I remembered the story about her that had eluded me that night at Daisy’s. At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers—a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round. The thing approached the proportions of a scandal—then died away. A caddy retracted his statement, and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken. The incident and the name had remained together in my mind."

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