Word: shepherd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olivier, Leslie Howard, and Raymond Massey perfume the bill. The only trouble is, there's no suspense. The audience knows that the six are marked men. All it has to do is sit back and gloat while six mouthsful of dust are bitten at pleasantly alternating intervals. The democratic shepherd and his sheep seem so safe from the pranks of these stupid little heilers. But it's fun, if you've had an exam and are feeling mildly sadistic...
Also in Superintendent Worthley's charge is the protection of the building and its valuables. In the daytime it is a fairly simple matter with all exits carefully watched and all galleries patroled. At night Rex of Gainwell takes over this responsibility. This eight-year-old German shepherd leaves his house on the back porch each evening to make the rounds with the night watchman, as did his father before...
...married her in his 503, had passion alone to recommend her. But for an aging man who had been careful all his life, that was enough. He painted her as Venus in furs, as all three Graces, and (for her bedroom) as a pornographic maiden attacked by a shepherd. He had had plenty of practice when he received from the King of Spain an order for 112 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Never has any painter received so gigantic a commission"). Before he finished, the King ordered 24 more. Then gout caught Rubens' hands. Paralysis followed. When...
...Named for the Greek shepherd god Pan, whose hoofs, horns, tail and goat beard panicked his mother Penelope when he was born...
...Around 1,000,000: Stevenson's Treasure Island; Du Maurier's Trilby; E. N. Westcott's David Harum; John Fox Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come; Florence Barclay's The Rosary; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Pollyanna; The Calling of Dan Matthews; E. M. Hull's The Sheik; America's Part in the World War, by R. J. Beamish and F. A. March, which was published...