Word: eunuch
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...being restricted to two or three of the Droadest Anglo-Saxon monosyllables. Libidinous high point of this show is not in the script at all; it is the direction of Lady Fidget's glance when a rakehell named Horner assures her that he is not, after all, a eunuch...
...lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that it was odd to hear Dr. Johnson discoursing in this fashion. But the manuscript shows that the situation was more painful. In the course of the talk about harems, Johnson said playfully that Boswell would make a good eunuch. But when Boswell replied in a similar spirit, Johnson got angry-"though he treats his friends with uncommon freedom, he does not like a return"-and began to expatiate on his impolite theme with "such fluency that it really hurt...
...Byzantine eunuch is a symbol of strength compared with the Teachers' Oath Bill, in which nowhere can one find the slightest penalty provided for its violation. Evidently the statesmen of Massachusetts believe that the wish is the father to the thought, and that once the virtue of patriotism has been given the force of legality, it will become a part of the temperament of the teachers of the Commonwealth...
...story is adapted from the novel by Pierre Louys, "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole." When the picture opens, the island is already dominated by Taxis, the King's eunuch, who has introduced a strict regime of order and repression. Then a young aviator blunders upon the place and naturally falls in love with Pausole's daughter. To escape Taxis' prying eyes, she flees from the palace and is followed by the aviator. Setting out, ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining...
...device for following the mood of the opera. Whatever the mood, it made little impression on the audience. Weaving up & down a runway, the Pasha's wife sang of love in the spring to a tenor in white flannels. The scene was interrupted by a spying eunuch whose voice cracked occasionally. The lover hid in a chest. The Pasha, who wore a dinner jacket and a crimson fez, appeared and sang "There is no ta-a-ble, is there?" The wife replied: "There is none." The Pasha said: "I had for-go-o-tten. We'd no need...