Word: boleyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malley's prize rendition is the bleak legend of the ghost of Anne Boleyn, haunting the draughty & bloody Tower of London where...
...Most Reverend Thomas Davidson ... if you tell too many lies, the Communist International will appoint two of its experts to write a history of the archbishopric of Canterbury which will make you feel sorry for yourself. . . . [When Henry VIII] had cast his eye on a simpering miss named Anne Boleyn, the Archbishop of Canterbury decided that all the Church dogmas and all the rulings of its head, the Pope of Rome, might make a comfortable pillow for his lascivious king. Even when Henry VIII got tired of Anne Boleyn and decided to have her put to death in order...
When William the Conqueror was fighting the Battle of Hastings (1066) bearded bards in Wales were taking crwth (pronounced crowd) in hand, sawing a short bow over its strings, singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back...
...London County Council declined to name a street for pretty Anne Boleyn, beheaded wife of Henry VIII. Reason: "Her virtue was not of a character to deserve respect...
...Alexander Korda, reflects the validity of his acting: it is a shiny, caustic, understanding portrait of a personage as comprehensible as he is extraordinary. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton) does, next to her husband, the cleverest acting in the picture. Binnie Barnes as Catherine Howard, Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn and Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour, despite their appalling names, are lovely looking. Good shot: Henry, between wives and deeply bored, spitting out a mouthful of dinner before rebuking his court for lack of refinement...