Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Beagle. Fifteenth century records list the Cecils as "municipal worthies" in the Lincolnshire city of Stamford. They were ancient and loyal vassals of the Tudor kings, and when Henry VIII confiscated the lands of the Roman Church, the Cecils got their share...
About lunchtime the next day, the ex-President of the U.S. turned his car into the driveway in front of a brick Tudor house in fashionable North Indianapolis, Ind. Frank McKinney, Indiana's top machine Democrat, and his wife Margaret greeted their old friends. The Trumans went in, washed up and sat at the McKinney's dining-room table for lunch (melon-ball cup, breast of chicken on ham, asparagus, stuffed oranges, hot rolls, black currant preserves, strawberry angel...
...Next worst disasters: Dec. 20, 1952: U.S.A. F. Globemaster at Moses Lake, Wash.; 87 killed. March 12, 1950: chartered Avro Tudor airliner at Cardiff, Wales; 80 killed. June 24, 1950: North west Air Lines DC-4 in Lake Michigan: 58 killed...
...Experienced ox-roasters were hard to come by after years of meat rationing, but here & there villages found oldtimers who remembered from coronations past how to skewer a beast and cook him whole, Tudor style, on the town common...
Although it presents a rather romanticized view of history, Young Bess is a better than average historical movie. It has rich Tudor sets and costumes, some literate dialogue and an excellent cast. As young Bess, Jean Simmons gives a spirited performance that has both charm and imperiousness. Stewart Granger makes a dashing Tom Seymour, Guy Rolfe a convincingly evil villain, and Deborah Kerr a beautiful Catherine Parr. In the role of gross, big-bellied Henry VIII, Charles Laughton is again cast in the part that won him a 1933 Academy Award in The Private Life of Henry VIII. He seems...