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...that The King's Henchman is completed, is Miss Millay's greatest achievement. According to her host-companion Poet Arthur Ficke, "it begins on a high heroic plane and mounts steadily in dramatic interest. It is mag-nificent." It sings of an English King who despatched his bosom friend, centuries ago, to seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over the moor, her path lighted by a single...
...greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations, he proceeds in the solemn vein:--"Thus it was that I was enabled to set about a labour of love and reverently to pry from its pedestal a figure halting upon one knee, with sensitive hands clasped in adoration before its bosom (now in the Fogg). No vandal hand but mine had disturbed it for eleven hundred years...
Last December Editor Payne suddenly decided that New Brunswick had not bared its bosom of all it knew. From the Mirror staff he despatched confidential investigators. Able Reporter Herbert M. Mayer became "sick" and left the office to direct the activity from an uptown Manhattan hotel. A county detective, George Totten, was engaged...
...stream where the carabao dream" and so far as adult females are concerned there is no undue exposure of the person. When the bather arrives at the place of the bath she loosens her saya (skirt) which is tied round her waist and lifts it to cover her bosom. She then removes her floppy camisa (waist) and camison (chemise) if she wears the latter garment, kicks aside her chinelas (slippers) and goes...
Many flocked to hear him, saw a stuffy little man, like a bantam rooster, come on the stage, saw him swell out his bosom, and open his mouth. They shut their eyes then, listened to melting outbursts rich in melody, sung in the approved Italian manner, lyrically, lovingly. They opened their eyes to see him lead on a little Italian child, ten-year-old Rina, his daughter. She played an accompaniment for him correctly, laboriously. They heard him sing again without distraction, heard him take perilous notes bravely, truly, cling to them fondly, heard pianissimos incredibly tender, applauded, many...