Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Sir Squire Bancroft, 85, "doyen of the English" stage, for 20 years manager of the Prince o' Wales's and Haymarket Theatres, player of over 500 roles, knighted by Queen Victoria; in London, after a lingering illness...
Jack, having butchered seven Spaniards not possessed of gold earrings, splits the eighth with an ax and wrests from his ears the trophy demanded by a pert minx-in-waiting to the Queen, Kate More, "granddaughter of Sir Thomas More...
...Thomas presumably rotates in his sepulchre during a lively scene wherein the Virgin Queen's bailiffs attempt to arrest Jack, knock him senseless, and are then set upon by Kate with such vigor that she is eventually overpowered in a state described as "mother naked...
...FOURTH QUEEN?Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...
Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...