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Retreat to New York. Milton was no hidden persuader. He opened a bar in the west portico of the state capitol at Raleigh to sway the legislators. Many North Carolinians still insist that the chipped stone steps of the capitol were broken by the barrels of booze rolled up and down them in those days...
...dancing piper with an exaggerated phallus indicates the celebration of orgiastic rites; farmers arrive with lambs for sacrifice and bearing bowls of barley meal for offerings. Most moving of all is a pre-Christian madonna and child, probably yet another appearance of the fertility and mother goddess who held sway throughout the Mediterranean...
...Goudge novels few are ever spared. For hundred of pages, battles sway to and fro indecisively-allowing ample space in between for dispatch riding, witch hunting, potion brewing, gypsy camping, idol smashing and other 17th century pastimes. Acting as spy for Charles, Lord Leyland falls in love with Froniga's (Parliamentary) niece, then falls victim to a gypsy beauty (mother of three cute little bastards named Dinki, Meriful and Cinderella) who hexes him with thorns stuck in his wax image. At death's point Francis is rescued by Yoben, who proves to be a disguised Roman Catholic priest...
With Willkie in Colorado, young Jim Hagerty first took up golf (he has a sure touch on the greens, but his body sway on the tee leads to flubs, which Frequent Partner Dwight Eisenhower calls "Hagerty Drives"). Hagerty was genuinely fond of Willkie. But his memories of the mismanaged Willkie train make White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who has come to know more about running a tram than most railroad presidents, writhe in professional pain. The Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved...
...Horseman, wearing a noble's peaked cap and leather armor of the 5th-6th century. Even more impressive is the antlerlike gold crown ornamented with jade found in a tomb of the Old Silla dynasty (57 B.C.-668 A.D.), whose hardy kingdom in Southeast Korea gradually extended its sway over the whole peninsula. With its similarity to the animal motifs of the Scythians, it suggests that early Koreans had more in common with the nomadic horsemen than with China...