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...days, she was taken to the King. Hundreds of courtiers and noblemen lay prostrate on the deep red carpet of the palace. The King watched her with his "hard shrewd bird's eyes." He marched up & down in front of her, placing one foot, encased in a golden, gem-encrusted slipper, directly before the other, as if performing some intricate drill. Suddenly he shouted: "How old shall you be?" Anna was so angry she replied: "One hundred and fifty years old, Sire." The King coughed, laughed, coughed, said, "In what year were you borned?" When Anna said...
...average theatregoer's idea of a prostitute. She also has a tendency to waste emotion on less important scenes, leaving little intensity for the climax. Much freshness and enthusiasm and an authentic Irish broque are contributed by Richard Hart, who looks like a young and relatively innocent Errol Flynn. GEM...
...William H. Holly mounted his bench in Chicago, he carried a newspaper clipping in his hand. The news, he said somewhat sadly, made any decision from him unnecessary. Forthwith, he ordered all copies of his decision destroyed. His secretary told reporters, with equal sadness, that it was "a literary gem...
...Petrus Christus' Dionysius the Carthusian. This small, serene, meticulous portrait of a monk (on wood panel) is often considered the gem of the Bache collection...
...Stassen wrote home every other day. But until this week he had not answered the $75,000-a-year question: What was he planning to do about the Stassen Presidential boom? Instead, good Navy-man Stassen had talked only of other things. Principally, he wanted to know every linguistic gem of 2-year-old Kathleen Stassen, who is launching timidly into speech. Presumably, however, he had ways to know that the first big test of his candidacy was coming up and that the news was not too hopeful...