“There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald , book May Day

"May Day"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

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