Word: eunuchism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the old Emperor died in 1862, so the story goes, his favorite concubine Yehonala sent a eunuch to the imperial death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...
...well-tried plastic surgery techniques - a tube of flesh transferred from the abdomen, a strip of cartilage from a rib. But until recently he shook his head when both testicles were destroyed. Without their hormones, he knew, his patient must inevitably be come effeminate in appearance and action - a eunuch...
Winston Churchill, speaking sternly to the London Poles, also spoke sternly to Franklin Roosevelt. It is high time, said the Prime Minister (in parliamentary language), that the U.S. Government quit its role as a eunuch in world affairs (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...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...