Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such was the Restoration pattern-up the ladder, down the ladder, in a maze of political and bedroom intrigues. The two latest Restoration biographies-one on George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, the other on John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester-are not merely complementary, they are like reading the same crazy story twice...
...swordsmanship was such that peaceful men turned pale and ladies swooned when he strode into their presence. Along with his fellow rakes, Buckingham was in and out of the royal favor like a gaudy shuttle -though Charles was too indulgent to fuss when Buckingham ran his sword through the Earl of Shrewsbury, husband of Buckingham's mistress. "I am sorry to find that cuckolds in France grow so troublesome," Charles wrote to his sister, the Duchess of Orleans, shortly after. "They have been inconvenient in all countries this last year...
...Higgins of Washington, D.C., is planning a dinner at her palatial London home. Her list of guests does not include her estranged husband-a dry-as-dust marquess whom she married chiefly for his title. Nor does it include the only man she really loves-her son, the Earl of Hazelhurst, who despises his father, oedipuses his mother, and spends most of his life staying drunk. But Katie's list does include...
GULF STREAM NORTH (253 pp.)-Earl Conrad-Doubleday...
Writers of the sea, like war novelists, test their heroes by putting them through an ordeal. In his semi-documentary novel. Gulf Stream North, Author Earl Conrad pits a simple crew of Florida Negroes against schools of unpalatable fish called menhaden, and gives their humble ordeal moments of tragic dignity...