Word: galahads
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Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
...brother, Luther, who tends bar at a hotel in Citrus City and later goes to work in a shipyard. Author Moon writes of people like Luther with great warmth of insight and a fine ear for inflections of speech. On the other hand, there is something a little too Galahad-like about the radical Negro intellectual, Eric Gardner, whom President Rogers is finally called on to defend against Cal Thornton...
...biography must be-of a historical character buried alive. At 62, Douglas Southall Freeman, the nation's No. 1 military historian, is a past master at converting the legendary dead into durable heroes. He devoted 19 years to a four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the untouchable Galahad of the Confederacy; historians of the Civil War were agreed that the job need never be done again. Another six years were spent on his three-volume Lee's Lieutenants, a study in command and military personality so lastingly pertinent that General Omar N. Bradley made it his major...
...hilt-was not aware that this capture had taken place. The U.S. people, most of whom would vote as Republicans or Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...
...Field Marshal V, and the young gentleman's career was assured. Later, in the U.S., he met and molded for bronze the late Mrs. Payne Whitney's Twenty Grand, George Widener's Eight Thirty, Jock Whitney's Royal Minstrel, Marshall Field's Stimulus, Sir Galahad Third ("You wouldn't turn around to look at Galahad, but I must confess he had nice manners"), stablefuls more. His next job: an equestrian statue for the grave of Field Marshal Sir John Dill in Arlington Cemetery...