Word: plantagenets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly 750 years ago that traveling Plantagenet, Richard Coeur de Lion, on one of his infrequent visits to England, imported the white swan and decreed that it was a "bird royal," to be owned only by the king and a few favored nobles. Later this privilege was extended to two great medieval corporations, the Honorable Company of Vintners and the Worshipful Guild of Dyers. A ceremony was instituted, whereby representatives of the King, of the Vintners and of the Dyers were to row up the Thames each summer marking and dividing between them all the little brown cygnets which...
...Desborough at the head of the speakers' table surrounded by the greatest diplomatic personages in London. At Yeoman Desborough's right in the seat of honor was Charles Gates Dawes, the newly-arrived U. S. Ambassador. At his left was Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson. Next to Mr. Dawes was plantagenet-beaked Sir Austen Chamberlain, the outgone Foreign Secretary, and beyond him Sir Austen's good friend, French Ambassador Monsieur de Fleurian. Also at the speakers' table were the Ambassadors of Germany, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, and the Italian Charge d'Affaires, Count Ruggeri...
...angular, hairy length of finely developed humanity who shambles about among the guests of a pretty Mrs. Cynthia Rylands on the Italian Riviera, talking calmly, kindly, but grimly and incessantly about the World State that science will eventually create. A sophisticated ineffectual from the U. S., a Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, assists the great man by neatly defining as "meanwhiling" the occupation of all people, himself included, who are not consciously accelerating the World State's arrival. A timid Tory, and a British Fascist; a beautiful Lady Catherine; some tennis and bridge players including a Puppy Clarges (female) ; and Cynthia...
...feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence, her knights and troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define...
...Talisman will recall the story as somewhat diffuse of dramatic transposition. There are central characters in superfluity. The King figures in the spotlight but he is too ancient for throbbing sentiment. Accordingly, Sir Kenneth, Knight of the Leopard, is included to play foil for Lady Edith Plantagenet. An amazing trick dog is present. Many hundreds of film feet are devoted to the Sultan Saladin, Saracen opponent of Richard in the Third Crusade. The scene is Palestine...