Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Does the Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...
...hearse slowly proceeded along a three-mile route to .the cemetery, thousands of blossoms were showered upon it. and the crowds roared: "Long live Toral! Long live Christ the King...
...appeared, whooping in full cry after a Hindu. To have interfered would have been suicide. Private Hopkins stood as quiet as a lamp post. Before his eyes the Hindu was caught, pinioned, kicked, slashed horribly, and finally disemboweled. This fiendish atrocity was too much for a Soldier of the King to bear. Private Hopkins, according to English correspondents, fainted...
...King's Men. It is a year since Walter Fairchild (Grant Mitchell) became a widower. Walter, slogan-spouting adman, is about to take himself a new wife. She, Florence Wendell (Mayo Methot) is to meet Junior Fairchild, Walter's 10-year-old son, and everybody hopes everybody else will like everybody else. Meanwhile Florence, inspecting the Fairchild apartment on Riverside Drive, feels she-doesn't-exactly-know-how in an apartment which was furnished by Walter's first wife and now is inhabited by her spirit. Florence wants to live in the East Sixties. Walter wants his western clients...
...seven torches of character, faith, motive, beauty, work, knowledge, conquest, God. Basil King writes a book inspiring in its powerful conclusion--that man can and must control his fate...