Word: reynard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SCANDALOUS ADVENTURES OF REYNARD THE Fox-Harry J.. Owens-Knopf...
...origin lost in the misty beginnings of all folklore, rapscallion Reynard's tale has been told and retold in a score of tongues. His name, his cunning, and the basis of some of his adventures are discernible in Aesop's fables and in the Hindu myths from which those fables came. In the 19th Century, philologist and fairytale-teller Jacob Grimm republished the story with all the gusty lustiness of earlier tellings; in a politer version Goethe made an epic poem of it. No less than 27 episodes of Le Roman de Renard were penned in medieval France...
...Caxton text briskly refurbished into up-to-date English by Editor Harry J. Owens of Chicago's Lakeside Press, Reynard emerges again, a lively and unscrupulous opportunist, still happy to live by his wits in picturesque unrespectability. "A thief, a traitor and an assassin"-in the words of his archenemy, Isengrim the Wolf-Reynard remains a likable rascal...
...Scandal Whatever. Editor Owens has kept the adventures of the fox as Caxton printed them. Again Reynard tempts pompous, grasping Brown the Bear to search for honey in a split log, knocks out the wedges and traps him fast. Again he steals the sausage from sniveling Poodle Wackerlos, shows that Wackerlos stole the sausage from treacherous Hintze the Tomcat, who in turn stole it from the miller's wife. Again he cheerfully seduces Isengrim's willing wife and later pleads: "One thing I want credit for, however, and that is keeping quiet about the business. If Isengrim...
Died. John Reynard Todd, 77, lean, legally trained builder and manager of Manhattan's blossom-bedecked Rockefeller Center, and an avid amateur horticulturist (like his good friend Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...