Word: dragon
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...gets embroiled in bastardy, murder, poverty, affluence, licentiousness and general skulduggery, but as he squanders his talents and dies in a debtors' prison, the rigorous moralist writing his story extends his compassion and pleads for that of the reader. In Le Fanu's The Room in the Dragon Volant, a rich and credulous Englishman is tricked on a trip to France by a pretty girl and a couple of Gallic sharpsters, but emerges somewhat wiser from the coffin in which they have nailed him. In Meredith's The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper, a complex...
...place by dubbing himself Galahad and tilting against his old Tammany pals, it seemed that he might add at least a breath of humor to the big city's dreariest modern campaign. But last week Impy was waved off on a technicality without so much as pinking a dragon...
...portentous theme song of the radio and TV crime show, Dragnet, which comes on the heels of Ray Anthony's bestselling record of the same theme song (TIME, Sept. 28). The deadpan private eye, in this case St. George himself, sets out to haul in a dragon which has been devouring maidens out of season. On the reverse, Funnyman Freberg mimics the same crime-show mannerisms in telling the story of Little Blue Riding Hood ("the color has been changed to prevent an investigation...
...flowery world of commencement orators ("Commencement is not an end, but a beginning"), there are always dragons to be slain. Last week was no exception. The orators slew Senator McCarthy dozens of times; they jabbed at the Atom, slashed at the Soviet, spoke well of freedom-academic and otherwise. But at Pennsylvania State College, one man took on a dragon that seemed to him more dangerous than all the rest. Said Clarence Manion, lawyer and former dean of Notre Dame's College...
...task force of learned Swedes descended on Farmer Trana's field and excavated enthusiastically. Eventually, Wilhelm Holmquist. keeper of the museum's Iron Age Department, dug up a wooden post with six bored holes. This was apparently an upright from the side of a High Seat. The dragon head fitted it perfectly...