Word: eunuch
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...would have no silk ; you cannot tell when it is clean." Boswell asked if he might have a job in this strange establish ment. "Yes, sir," roared the doctor. "Properly dressed you would, make a splendid eunuch." Often he took whatever side of an argument promised the most fireworks. When fashionable friends philosophized on the virtues of poverty, Johnson flew into a Tory rage. When someone suggested that poor criminals were better off in not having to suffer the ignominy of public executions, he flared up on the other side: "No, sir, executions are intended to draw spectators...
...bathing in the Thames and for low-necked dresses. "Ods-fish, madame," cracked the King, "the greatest display that ever I've seen . . . since I was weaned!" All the best people came to see the Duchess taking her bath in asses' milk, attended by Herman, her Algerian eunuch. "Pray, no ceremony here," Amber would cry, rising from her marble tub: "Herman-fling me a towel...
...Joseph books almost require a second reading. Readers will be likely to enjoy this big book only when they have looked back upon the immense pattern of the story, the array of characters-Joseph himself, his father, Jacob, his brothers, the scribes and stewards of Egypt, the courtly eunuch Potiphar, his sexually frustrated wife, the two dwarfs (in whom Mann personifies the principles of ineffectual goodness and potent evil), Pharaoh, the sermons of the bald-pated Egyptian priests, the astronomy, history, architecture, concepts of life & death-and the similarities and differences in the ancient legends of different people that Mann...
...latest utterance on the course of the postwar U.S. is a typical example. The entire bill is in generalities only. He accused Ball of trying to emasculate his bill-a eunuch cannot be emasculated...
...intellectual eunuch Castlereagh...