Word: clode
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...Lovegrove ("She always insisted on going home to her boy friend every night," said Lovegrove, and now his wife Linda is threatening to sue him for divorce, naming Helen as corespondent). Reluctant to hurt her 18-month-old son Richard (the child of former boy friend Boutique Owner Christopher Clode) by more publicity, Helen abdicated. It was back to virgins for Mecca. The new Miss World, Runner-Up Anneline Kriel, 19, of South Africa, whose boy friend is a theological student, says: "I will ward off the wolves...
...Clocks" is a dark and Quatous fairy story, for all its humor. Genial King Clode is now the Duke (no first name given) who is always cold and has one log longer than the other "because when he was young, he had spent his mornings place-kicking pups and punting kittons." The delightful bumbling Royal rotinue is now a shadowy band of spies called Whisper, and Hark, and Liston...
Despite their similarities, however, the two books are very different in tone. "The White Dear" was a light-hearted story that made fun of the entourage of King Clode: the Royal Physician who was always taking his own pulse and not telling himself what it read, the Royal Astronomer who saw pink comets brushing by the earth through his pink-colored glasses, and all the rest. It was a smiling, sophisticated fairy story...
...none of them could tell King Clode what to do about the white deer he had trapped in the forest, and which had suddenly changed into a beautiful princess. And when they saw the way the princess nibbled lettuce, they could not promise the King that she wouldn't change back any minute...
...Take an Edict." King Clode summoned the Royal Recorder. His Majesty dictated: "Write it plain and write it clear: No son of mine shall wed a deer." But the smart princess had already given King Clode's sons, Princes Thag, Callow and Jorn, deeds of valor to perform in rivalry for her hand-or, it might be, hoof...