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===Polly and Harry marry=== [[File:Harry polly crosby 1922.JPG|thumb|Harry and Polly Crosby on the day of their marriage on September 9, 1922]] [[File:Île Saint-Louis - Quai d'Orléans (Paris).jpg|thumb|Crosby and Polly lived in an apartment on one of two islands on the Seine during 1922.]] On September 9, 1922, Crosby and Polly were married in the Municipal Building in New York City, and two days later they reboarded the RMS ''Aquitania'' and moved with her children to Paris. There, they joined the [[Lost Generation]] of expatriate Americans disillusioned by the loss of life in World War I and the moral and social values of their parents' generation.<ref name=blackcat>{{Cite web|url=http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/2008/12/|title=Harry Crosby and the Black Sun Press|date=December 12, 2008|publisher=Black Cat Books 2008|access-date=26 March 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922151736/http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/2008/12/|archive-date=22 September 2010}}</ref> Crosby continued his work at Morgan, Harjes et Cie, the Morgan family's bank in Paris. They found an apartment at 12, Quai d'Orléans overlooking the Seine, on the exclusive [[Île Saint-Louis]], and Polly donned her red bathing suit and row Crosby down the Seine in his dark business suit, formal hat, umbrella, and briefcase<ref name="greenberg">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/the-glory-years-the-crosbys-harry-and-caresse/|title=Bonjour Paris – The Glory Years: The Crosbys: Harry and Caresse|last=Greenberg|first=Arnie|date=4 April 2005 |access-date=28 March 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708082538/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/the-glory-years-the-crosbys-harry-and-caresse/|archive-date=8 July 2011}}</ref> to the [[Place de la Concorde]], where he walked the last few blocks to the bank on [[Place Vendôme]]. As she rowed back home, Polly, who was well endowed, enjoyed whistles, jeers, and waves from workmen. She said the exercise was good for her breasts.<ref name="greenberg"/> After their first year in Paris, Polly shipped her children off to boarding schools in Gstaad.<ref name="Conover"/>{{rp|5}} At the end of 1923, Crosby quit Morgan, Harjes et Cie and devoted himself to the life of a poet, and later, publisher.<ref name="kicks">{{Cite web|url=http://www.litkicks.com/HarryCrosby/|title=Harry Crosby|publisher=Literary Kicks|date=November 27, 2002|access-date=18 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105000728/http://litkicks.com/HarryCrosby|archive-date=5 January 2010}}</ref>
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