Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. Nine centuries ago, the Battle of Hastings cost King Harold II of England his kingdom and his life-a price, as Author Butler suggests in this excellent first book, that may have been dearer than England knew...
Thus Samuel Butler eased a case of culture shock he contracted on visiting the North American continent...
...STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. Nine centuries ago, the Battle of Hastings cost King Harold I of England his kingdom and his life-a price, as Author Butler suggests in this excellent first book, that may have been dearer than England knew...
Peace & Reason. Author Butler measures the price of Hastings in terms of the man who died there and the man who survived to wear the crown. Har old, he says, had little chance to lay his hand on England's future-but that little was enough to judge him. To secure insurrectionist Northumbria be fore the Norman invasion, Harold ventured north-the first English king in years to do so-protected only by a royal bodyguard and armed only with a passion for peace and reason. On a kingdom accustomed to aggressive war he imposed the principle of defensive...
...grounds of the rented villa in Rome where Liz, Dick and the menagerie are staying while they shoot The Taming of the Shrew. Next morning at 5, Charlie Brown awakened the family with anguished meowing from the top of a fir tree, and out trooped Liz, Dick and butler to the rescue. The butler bravely ascended the fir, but when he started down with Charlie, the cat squirmed loose, plummeting onto Liz's head and misbehaving on the spot. Then the butler's ladder fell, also clonking Charlie's mistress. Good grief. Charlie Brown...