Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real, native-spun yarns for tweeds. It is because he has known the mysteries of the notch lapel, the peak lapel and the semi-drape lapel. . . because he has heard tales to the effect that side-vents were originally made for grouse shooting, and has dreamed of fine virgin wool that has been stored on the wharves of Glasgow for over seventy-five years. But, most important of all, it is because he originally had the funds to invest in these dreams...
Hollywood has done it many times before; and in all probability it will do it many times again. But the fascination of Tudor England seems to hold American moviegoers entranced and they come to see tales of the Virgin Queen screened and re-screened. Perhaps it's the sword-play, perhaps it's the capes, perhaps its Errol Flynn's tawny beard that gets...
...often encountered lions' nests hidden in tall grass while plowing the wild virgin land, and the angry beasts sent natives and oxen running in all directions. Lions showed the utmost cunning in discovering and outwitting his tricks to prevent them from preying on the domestic animals...
...reply: 'I kept alive.' " Hoare's record includes negotiating, without the knowledge of the French, the British-German naval pact, selling Haile Selassie out in the Hoare-Laval agreement. In fact, "as Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare passed from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...
...Description of a Black Mass. Ingredients: an apostate priest, a consecrated host, a virgin, a prostitute. Verdict: "Rather a bore unless one gets a kick out of blasphemy...