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Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...rained till the Churchill Downs track looked like a brown and olive swamp. The favorite flower of the East was Blue Larkspur, but Man O' War's gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them...
...open season at the Court of St. James once more fills the columns of the society page as the flower of democracy runs the gauntlet of diplomacy, privilege and connection to reach the end in view. Journalists "view with alarm" the costly pilgrimmage and tales run rife of the "inside path" to the Mecca of upper crust...
Similarly the newly collected cuts from the "Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein. "The Death of the Virgin" by Rembrandt, and works by Abraham Bosse tell much about the manner of life of people in the seventeenth century. Prints by Boucher and Fragonnard, flower designs for wall-paper and textiles after Pillemont, and a reproduction of Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mede" are illustrative of the decorative arts in the eighteenth century...
BAUDELAIRE?FLOWER OF EVIL?Francois Porché?Horace Liveright...