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Suburban Bliss. Sir Henry is sufficiently tired to realize that his quest is not for glory and the Grail, but for the cozy security of a small castle with a hot-and-cold-running moat. But once he finds his medieval version of suburban bliss and the itinerant ménage à trois settles down, he feels he is committed to being a hero. So off he rides again on his trusty steed, this time to face the greatest foe a man can have: himself. It is a battle that Satirist Nathan does not allow his Every...
...Loire lay in an ancient rumor that a fortune of francs in jewels and gold lay buried somewhere in its walls. In 1951 the marquise began looking for the treasure in earnest. She hired work men in droves to dig up the ancient foundations. When water from the castle moat seeped into the cellars, she brought in helmeted divers to continue the hunt. Girders gave way, walls collapsed, suction pumps worked overtime, but still the marquise searched...
Tennant snapped: "I'm sick and tired of being followed!" A news blackout followed. Across the moat of privacy, reporters had Slim pickings: The only tidings that drifted out from the inner sanctum: a picnic had been called off because of rain-and U.S. Crooner Eddie Fisher had sent the princess a special recording of Happy Birthday...
...names: e.g., a Hollywood physician is known as Knight Hypocrates or the Pill Peddler. Members carry swords and wear helmets, use what they consider to be antique language ("gnaw" for eat, "torch" for cigar), and engage in musical and beer-drinking contests. In the works: a club house with moat and drawbridge...
Wriston envisioned the solution and today the "Quadrangle" stands as a monument to the new Brown cohesion. This eight-acre series of muddled dorms and fraternities houses 60 per cent of the undergraduates. A pale-red brick wall and grass moat surround the labyrinth of closely-packed buildings. No one suffers from clostrophobia and everyone finds they have a new centralized social life...