Word: castor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deference to reason and ingrained classicism, he contrives a confidante for Helen: when Castor and Pollux rescued their sister from her first abductor, King Theseus of Attica, they took away with them Theseus' mother, queenly Aithre. Devoted bondslave, solicitous handmaid, prescient foster mother, Aithre was at hand in the seven subtle crises of Helen's life, which crises Scholar White picks out in the poised, sophisticated chiseling of an heroic frieze, so craftily restored that the very air of antiquity moves about the figures, golden with the tang of wine...
...scene is laid in Boston, which Mr. Henry describes as a place with "an air genteel of respectability, which makes you understand that worldly wealth must not be discussed in public, and that on no account must you mention castor oil in the presence of ladies." It purports to be the diary of a middle-aged ex-professor in a boys' school who on the death of his uncle becomes automatically possessed of the latter's Boston house and cheerful $20,000 income, and on his own account, of an engaging ability to play around with flappers...
Thus gently reminded of their civic duty and the Fascist cudgels and castor oil, panic-stricken electors rushed to the polls to "vote the right way." More than 6,000,000 voters-over 50% of the electorate-turned out-a high record for Italy.* The new electoral system (TIME, May 28, et seq.) is a triumph of the ingenuity of the Latin mind. Broadly speaking, the party receiving the largest number of votes, providing its plurality be one-quarter of the "total vote cast, will receive 356 seats-two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The remaining...
Charles Maurras, famed Royalist leader, distinguished classical scholar and author, co-editor of L'Action Francaise, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment by the Paris Court of Appeals for having incited young Royalists to administer castor oil to Socialist Deputies Maurice Viollette, Marc Sagnier and Marius Moutet. Last June M. Maurras was sentenced together with three members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers-a Royalist organization) to four months' imprisonment. Although he was not implicated in the original charge he came forward and took the blame for the assaults. In the Appeal trial...
...Arthur Patterson, the Order has "purified" the Ex-Service Men's Club, has caused persons running undesirable houses in a provincial town to close down and was investigating a gambling scandal. This program of cleaning up Britain seems to be in imitation of Fascist tactics in Italy, minus the castor oil and the big sticks...