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...Thus ignoring nine other Michaels among his putative imperial ancestors, including Michael III (the Drunkard) and Michael IV (the Tickler). Michael IV was valet to the Emperor Romanus, who used to call Michael in to tickle the soles of his feet. Romanus' wife, the Empress Zoe, fell in love with Michael, poisoned Romanus, married tickling Michael and made him Emperor, while Michael's brother, John the Eunuch, ran the country as premier. Michael got sick, locked himself in a room and died refusing to see the lovelorn Zoe. John the Eunuch went on running the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: From Table Top to Throne | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Booze Who. In Chester, England, police of Cheshire County began printing photographs of the town drunkard, planned to send copies to all pubs with the warning: "If you serve this man, you are liable to a ?10 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...tempest, a spent and blowsy drunkard, reeled northward into Georgia and north along the eastern seaboard. Bessie, one of Florida's most ferocious hurricanes, at week's end had been demoted to a "disturbance" on Weather Bureau charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Vicious Lady | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Among the period pieces that Menke's ten players have gagged up for the urban taste: The Drunkard, The Hat fields and the McCoys, Brother Against Brother, East Lynne, The Lure of the City. Recent audiences have been somewhat taken aback because 16-year-old Jack Fletcher, who performs as Hamlet, tries to play the role without gags. "Sometimes," he says, "I have to cut some of the soliloquies short to save my neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: There Goes the Showboat | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...glorify himself and Edward, Boult stops at nothing. He betrays and bullies his gentle wife (Deborah Kerr), who ends up as a maudlin drunkard. He deserts his mistress (Leueen MacGrath), and drives his old friend and partner (Mervyn Johns) to suicide. As the movie ends, both Edward and his wife are dead, but Boult, still obsessed with the pursuit of self-perpetuation, is ready to begin a search for Edward's illegitimate child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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