Word: hyacinths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floor. But Bérard would be remembered more for his influence and his eccentricities than for his painting. It would be hard for his friends to forget Bébé waddling about Paris dragging his fat, slovenly white poodle "Hyacinth" on a dirty rope. At fashion shows he would sometimes sprawl full-length on the floor with Hyacinth in his arms, clapping his hands and crying out "Ravishing!" as the models swished past his head. If he did that, the dresses were sure to be a success...
Goaded beyond endurance, the Labor M.P. for Rochdale, Dr. Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan, burst out: "You are a dirty...
Great New Deal. The opening chapters read like dehydrated Dickens. Hyacinth, the young hero, is the son of a French prostitute and an English lord; the lord has been murdered and the prostitute imprisoned for life for the crime. The boy meets a group of anarchists and through them some socially conscious aristocrats...
...Italian prince she married. Taking her do-gooding more seriously than her fellow aristocrats, she moves to a shabby little London house, gives the prince's money away to the poor and even offers to assassinate a duke for the anarchists. But not before she has given Hyacinth a taste of princely living and watched him fall in love with her. Says the princess: "I'm convinced that we're living in a fool's paradise, that the ground's heaving under our feet . . . I'm one of those who believe that a great...
...Hyacinth, who has secretly sworn to carry out the assassination of the duke, begins to have his doubts about the wisdom of destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...