Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unexpectedly Eadgar comes to visit their worried household, where Aelfrida yearns for glamorous court life and Aethelwold's treachery burns constantly in his heart. Mr. Taylor's cellos breathe chromatic sights. The henchman is driven to reveal to his wife his perfidy: how he deprived the King of her beauty, her of a queen's throne. If she loves him, let her hurry to make herself appear ugly, bent, broken, scarred, withered, that the King may find his brother innocent of treason...
Here, Miss Millay strikes a tone of modern cynicism. Aelfrida appears before the royal guest in all her glory, wearing a golden robe, splendid in her favorite gems. The betrayer is betrayed. He plunges his dagger into his heart. He commits suicide in a "nice" way, explains Miss Millay. No fuss, tenor solo, orchestral pomposity; no sentimental worblings of lost love and noble remorse. Like a true Saxon, he quietly takes his life, "for himself," not glory or revenge. Aelfrida weeps but Eadgar says to her: "Thou hast not tears enough in thy narrow
...right into Stanley, waiting in front of the cage. From a cluster of Green defense men, the Crimson substitute slipped the disc through and past Bott for the first score. In the second stanza, Coady took the puck down center ice, and his crashing drive straight into the heart of the Green goal gave the Crimson its second score...
...form of Roman Catholic confession is this : The penitent, kneeling at the confessor's feet, says : "Pray, Father, bless me, for I have sinned." The priest says : "The Lord be in thy heart and on thy lips, that thou mayest truly and humbly confess thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Penitent: "I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, [tells of sins committed since last confession]. . . . For these and all my other sins which I can not now remember I am heartily sorry ; I purpose amendment...
...Banton, privileged to guard the city's morals, once tried having a citizens' play jury, but had to disband it for its failure to find dirt. The evident lack of heart in the police procedure against The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man, was doubtless due to the fact that the public censor is also a public servant requiring votes to hold office. Nevertheless, pending the hearings on these three plays, the management of a "homosexual comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring...