Word: cave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gale and his young sailor brother Pascoe quarrel over a hoard of gold hidden in an ancient chest. The beginning is gay with folk tunes. Villagers dance in the market place. Thereafter gloom prevails. Gale, for whom Leginska named her opera, murders his brother, hides the body in a cave near the sea, never succeeds in escaping its ghost...
Just in case someone wants to hear the most ancient TIMEly exposés of human nature "in the raw," I would like to have our good brethren preach from a text in the cave-lady episode of Genesis 19, concerning the love-feasts of the two daughters of Lot. No condemnation offered there either, in the Book...
...explains that she has been in love with him for 500 years. The hospitality at the castle is good; the Queen's character, bad. When she tries to dump Tanya into a cauldron, Leo Vincey rescues her, runs away. He and his associates find themselves trapped in the cave of the mystic flame. The Queen jumps into the flame to show Leo that it will do him no harm. Instead of rejuvenating her, it turns her into an old lady. Muttering, in effect, "What am I up against?" she wilts to the ground. The Vincey expedition starts for home...
...luxurious house commanding two wide sweeps of the Potomac River, occupies it with an old Boston friend, Edward E. Moore, who serves as his assistant. On the terraces ''Joe'' Kennedy plays the urbane host at small dinners famed throughout the Capital for the excellence of cave and cuisine. In the private cinema theatre he may later entertain friends like Senator Wheeler, Legalite Cohen, General Counsel Burns. In the mornings before breakfast he takes a dip, naked, in the swimming pool...
...illumination from its great period of Chinese and Mongol influence in the 13th Century to its degeneration at the end of the 17th Century. It gave gallery-goers some understanding of the feeling that prompted the 15th Century Shah Ismail to lock his favorite miniature painter Behzad in a cave before going to war with the Turks; that made Persian merchants value one line of perfect script at one gold bar of the same size, one miniature, at one ruby...