Word: jailbirds
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...including King, caricatures the parts in the familiar cinematic manner, and although there are painful moments when the immortal Villon must recite dreadful verses organized for him by Hollywood hack writers, The Vagabond King is high-spirited and good-looking enough to be fair entertainment. Best shot: Villon's jailbird army mobilizing to defend the city...
Casanova was an imposing figure over six feet tall: "satiric, satanic, sensuous. An ugly man, swarthy, hawklike, with beady eyes . . . thin elongated nose." A charlatan, cardsharp, liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which...
...true feelings-I have the most tremendous pride and hopefulness for America) and that I was jailed in Boston. A little while later I received an angry letter from my aunt, la Comtesse de Gabriac, saying that the Paris Herald had also reported me to be a jailbird. Simultaneously came various letters from California kidding me unmercifully about the same story carried by papers out there. The clipping from TIME was the fatal straw, and realizing that TIME will reach as nation-wide a public as all these other papers combined, I rely upon your courtesy to correct this mistake...
...adamantine autocracy. Her constant offering to the nation was daughter after daughter, and never an heir to the throne. Troubled by this her failing, she resorted to mystic seances (Princess Radziwill includes table-tipping, which the Baroness denies) conducted by a smooth character who turned out to be ex-jailbird and Parisian hairdresser. This Philippe prophesied a son; the Empress believed herself with child; a date was publicly announced, and excitement ran high. But no child appeared-the Empress having suffered the undignified phenomenon of phantom birth...
...Phillips' prices were exorbitant. Lawyer Buckner dramatically displayed them on a chart. Mr. Connolly had the power to jockey contracts. He seemed to have awarded them as he wished. He mysteriously acquired thousands of dollars. Mr. Connolly, said many, looked like material for a long-time jailbird...