Word: sibyl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sibyl, Lady Stanley, 53, august daughter-in-law of the Earl of Derby, and for three years "extra maid of honor" to Queen Mary, found herself in a police court last fortnight. Her crime: financial freewheeling...
...15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
...book fulfills it. It is a character study of Mrs. Sibyl Jardine, who lived in an old house set on a round hill surrounded by beeches and birch trees. Mrs. Jardine was a mystery. She fascinated children and worried their parents. The Ballad and the Source begins when she invites her neighbors' daughters, Jess and Rebecca, to pick primroses and have...
...wish. When he discarded humble Sibyl Vane (Angela Lansbury) and she killed herself, the mouth of the portrait warped in cruelty. He locked it away, where only he could see it. As the years passed, and he lost himself in every depth, of vice the screen dare hint at, he watched the portrait's gradual and fantastic corruption.* He saw how blood sprang out on the right hand when at length he committed murder...
Near the little woodland lake of Nemi. 20 miles from a Rome as yet unborn. Rome's Father Aeneas, at the Sibyl's bidding, plucked a branch from a tree in the Sacred Grove before he essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators...