Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular sellers), published by Cleveland's World Publishing Co. The sales were big enough to convince World that it would be worthwhile to sell cheap books where they had not been sold before. Last week International Circulation Co. (a Hearst subsidiary) began to sell World's 49? Tower books on 20,000 newsstands in railroad stations, supermarkets, cigar stores...
...wise innocence of a Catholic priest prevails against the world-his parish-and the flesh-the problems of his parishioners); James Hilton's So Well Remembered, a simple Englishman's struggle between good (his principles) and evil (his wife); James Ramsey Ullman's The White Tower, in which men's aspirations to faith were symbolized in terms of mountain climbing...
...cold, rainy morning in the reign of Mary Tudor, an official barge swept up to the landing stage of the Tower of London. Out stepped 20-year-old Elizabeth, Queen Mary's red-haired half-sister, who had just been arrested on suspicion of treason. At sight of the terrible Tower, where her luckless mother, Queen Anne Boleyn, had lost her head, the Lady Elizabeth's legs sank under her, and she fell weeping on the wet stones. Then she pulled herself together and walked into the prison with her head held high...
...nearby cell of the Tower languished another treason suspect-handsome, youthful Lord Robert Dudley, whose father, the Duke of Northumberland, had just been beheaded. As children, Lord Robert and the Lady Elizabeth had played together; they had studied Latin under the same tutor. In the Tower they met again. Soon it was rumored that dashing Prisoner Dudley had so bewitched Prisoner Elizabeth that she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. The rumor seemed to be confirmed nearly five years later, when Elizabeth rode in state to her coronation, and Robert Dudley, her newly created Master of the Horse, proudly...
Last Service. By middle age, Leicester was no longer the slim, handsome gallant who had dazzled Elizabeth in the Tower. His face was red, his beard streaked with grey, his hair thin. And despite Elizabeth's efforts to keep him on a diet ("two ounces of flesh" a day, and "the twentieth part of a pint of wine to comfort his stomach"), sweet Robin was getting paunchy. And then, one day, the Queen discovered that he had secretly married handsome, widowed Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex -or "that she-wolf," as the Queen preferred to call...