Word: tavernes
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...manages her share of the proceedings with considerable verve and a singing voice that does credit to her family. By a strange turn of affairs, after five reels spent in manipulating the affections of Boles and the checkbook of Walburn, Miss Lee is eating dinner in the very tavern where the thug who stole her boss's negative is bragging about his exploit. Best song: I Found a Dream...
...medicine and a permanent taste for low company." He believed in gnomes, sylvans, sprites, salamanders, macrocosms, microcosms. He knew botany, alchemy. He feared no man and he broke the laws of his profession, his Government and his God. Before he died as the result of being stabbed in a tavern fight, Paracelsus had bullied European doctors into using chemicals in scientific fashion...
Unmindful of literary bores who tell the plots of stories they hope to write, Author Maugham in Don Fernando subtly recreates the atmosphere in which his unwritten novel was to have been laid. A master of indirection, he begins unobtrusively with an account of contemporary Don Fernando, fat, dirty tavern keeper who forced on him a biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius, who disappointed a noble family, sacrificed his influence with the great, and in the flower of his youth went to live among the poor, captured Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered...
...brained hero who appeared on La Scala stage as a dreamer who fiddled while Rome was burning because he was sincerely absorbed in his music. La Scala had staged a lavish production but, even to many who cheered, it all seemed rather foolish. First act was in a murky tavern where Nero, in disguise, fights a gladiator and ensnares a trembling slave girl who sings duets with him after she has become accustomed to the splendors of Palatine Hill. When the people revolt Nero is still in a dream, staging wild bacchanalia or strumming on his lyre. When he stabs...
...cobwebby garret, the witling Don carols a Spanish song and puts on a battered suit of armor. He has driven his niece (Sidney Fox) and her ninny of a fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing...