Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While Norway's King Haakon and 30,000 of his subjects watched in silence, Eleanor Roosevelt unveiled a heroic granite statue of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt on a site overlooking Oslo Harbor. Then Mrs. Roosevelt thanked her hosts, Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, and was off to Stockholm for a little visit with Sweden's King Gustaf...
Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...
...Queen Rules. Estranged from Henry in 1168, Eleanor set up her own court in Poitiers. There, in sunny arcades, to the shapely wooing of a flute, she and her followers brought the cult of chivalric love to perfection. But the idyl of manners was brief. Henry sniffed sedition in the antics of her preux chevaliers, broke up the court, and hauled Eleanor back to an English keep. She languished there, in sumptuous jail, for 15 years...
...Eleanor was 67 when Henry died, yet she sprang like a lioness to seize England for her cub, Richard. She governed it magnificently for him, too, when he went on crusade; and after his return, managed the political power while he took the field against the French...
...Eleanor capped her career by a military triumph. Besieged in the castle of Mirebeau by the Franks, the wily old queen so bemused the French with negotiation that every man Jacques of them fell captive to her son John, Richard's successor,* whom she had secretly called to her aid. Two years later, as John let her continental lands slip through his fingers, Eleanor quietly died. She lies at Fontevrault, between Henry and Richard. The effigy on the tomb of the greatest and worldliest woman of her time shows a figure peacefully perusing a book-which...