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Order of Aphrodites. But from the moralist's point of view, the worst was to come. It was the era of the great royal mistresses (Maintenon, Pompadour, Du Barry) and of the monsters of sex (notably the Marquis de Sade). It.was also the Age of Enlightenment, and medical science was eagerly enlisted in the service of love. Late in Louis XIV's reign, a certain Dr. Venette soberly advised that dried Egyptian crocodile kidneys pounded into a powder and diluted in sweet wine made the perfect aphrodisiac...
...spending practices of insurance companies; in Saratoga Springs. N.Y. Spurred by public indignation, a committee of the New York state legislature investigated Equitable, pressured young Hyde to quit his job as vice president. Incensed. Hyde moved to France, where he settled for the real Versailles (he restored Madame de Pompadour's home), vowed never to return to the U.S., but he kept his citizenship and hurried home when the Nazis marched into Paris and spoiled...
...plane stepped a stocky, round-faced Russian with a curly iron-grey pompadour who was just as remarkable as the TU-114. He was Soviet First...
Perhaps the best of Comden-Green is their quicksilver asides. In a take-off on 42nd Street flesh cinemas ("Doors open promptly at 3 a.m."), Doorkeeper Betty barks: "You've heard of Madame Pompadour, you've heard of Madame DuBarry. Now dig Madame Curie, the greatest madame of them all!" From their turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard...
...wonder if La Pompadour went to bed all gooked up? If not, how ever did she get her "psychological lift...