Word: saracenic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topical satire. While her husband King Lot is away fighting Arthur, Queen Morgause, comic symbol of the egocentric wife, attempts the seduction of lovesick King Pellinore (3.2 Don Quixote) and Sir Grummore Grummursum (Sancho Panza on rye). Meanwhile her neglected sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris and Gareth confound their Saracen tutor Palomides, who talks rather like Charlie Chan, and beg stories from heretic St. Torealvac (parody brogue), who inhabits a beehive and drinks mountain...
...Evelyn Hall Warburton petitioned the Bucks County (Pa.) court at Doyleston to stop her parents-in-law from selling the 94-acre Saracen Farm where her late husband Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, accidentally shot himself while hunting two months ago (TIME...
...Buzz") Warburton Jr., 58, socialite farmer and aviator, grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; of an abdominal wound received when his shotgun accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence after a pheasant on his 94-acre Saracen Farm; near Doylestown, Pa. At a party last June in Stamford, Conn, he was burned about both eyes when he set off a skyrocket to announce his arrival...
Oldtime religious uproar, as an excuse for battles, trick photography and downstairs orgies; is the basic DeMille formula. In Palestine, The Crusades gets its second wind and builds up to two of the liveliest climaxes in its director's career. The first arrives when Saladin (Ian Keith), the Saracen leader, kidnaps Berengaria. Richard hurries a siege tower, ladders and catapults to the walls of Acre, from which Saladin's soldiers shower arrows, spears and boiling oil. The second comes when, finding that Saladin is not in Acre but Jerusalem, the cavalry of the two armies meet...
...reflecting that although Anatole France would have done them better, many a Cabellian would have done them worse. In adapting the Tristan legend to his scheme, Author Erskine has of course ousted Tristan from the hero's place, made minor Palamede the heroic figure. Palamede was a Saracen who fell in love with the ideas of chivalry as related to him by one of his father's Christian slaves. The bit about adoring women particularly appealed to Palamede. He deviled his father for permission to travel among the Franks, find an object of adoration. His philosophical father intimated...