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...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence...
...regularly against depression and . . . indigestion." He wrote a paper describing "the most gorgeous excitement" it aroused in animals, and exulted in the "virility" it aroused in him. "Woe to you, my Princess, when I come," he wrote Martha. "I will kiss you quite red . . . And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body...
...away with poetic affectations, eliminated the "thee's" and "thou's" of earlier translators, edited such elaborate phrases as "Odysseus of many counsels answered her saying . . ." to "Odysseus answered . . ." He changed Poseidon, Girdler of the Earth, to Earthshaker Poseidon, called the Cyclops "Goggle-eyes" instead of "froward," transformed the "fair-tressed Dawn" into "welcome streaks of light." He restored some of Homer's humor by translating a few names literally (Acroneus, Ocyalus and Elatreus became Top-ship, Quicksea and Paddler), allowed his characters to say such things as "Daddy, dear . . ." or "Old fellow . . ." All in all, Rouse...
...Devil's Children. The colonists had plenty else to concern them besides the Indians. In New England, especially, the Devil made trouble. "Exhibiting himself ordinarily as a small black man," says that great theological gossip, Cotton Mather, the fiend "decoyed a fearful knot of proud, froward, ignorant, envious, and malicious creatures to lift themselves in his horrid service...
...place with a rose petal, then pushed Marie out of bed to give thanks that the species had been created male and female. When Marie complained that the bridal party had given her a fierce hangover, Mr. Milton lost patience. "Phlegmatic and ungrateful wretch!" he barked. "What a froward, drivelling flibbergib have I taken to my bosom!" Then he booted her out of bed again, turned over and read the Greek classics for the rest of the night...