Word: zorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legendary figure in St. Louis. At his 20-room brick mansion he lavishly entertained such guests as Sarah Bernhardt and Teddy Roosevelt; he bought homes in Pasadena, Calif. and Cooperstown, N.Y., bought himself a manor on Germany's Rhine, had himself painted by Sweden's Anders Zorn. Traveling to New York in his private car, he passed out gold coins on all sides. Adolphus Busch could afford it. When he died in 1913, he left his family an estate valued at $50 million and a brewery turning out beer at the rate of 1,600,000 bbls...
Martha Davidson seemed to have read about the only-Golux-in-the-world with considerable understanding. And she somehow communicated this understanding to her body so that the Golux was consistently right and helped the whole thing go along. Her protectorate, Prince Zorn by Glenn Goldberg, was gracefully awkward and cloud-eyed as he followed the only Golux over the Duke's dead body to the hand of the Princess Saralinda. Goldberg and Miss Davidson were most always very good at being what they should...
...Zorn was in despair "when he felt a gentle finger touch his elbow." It was the Golux, "a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark, describable beard...
...Have Flaws." Zorn followed the Golux to Hagga's hill, a place so high that it is dug in furrows "where the dragging points of stars had plowed the fields," and where "there was a smell . . a little like Forever in the air." There they found a woman who wept jewels-and sometimes, when she wasn't really very moved, she just cried costume jewelry...
...Zorn dropped a sackful of her tears in the Duke's lap, and sailed off with the princess for "the distant shining shores of Ever After." The Duke "showed his lower teeth" and muttered disconsolately: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." A little while later there was a smell of old unopened rooms; then there was a sound of rabbits screaming; then there was a gleep; and then there wasn't any Duke in Coffin Castle...