Word: templars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Edward F. Arn and two captains of Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign, Senator Frank Carlson and National Committeeman Harry Darby. Arn openly and Carlson and Darby quietly backed Party Stalwart George Templar, 49, as Arn's successor. But by a margin of 15,000 votes, Templar, onetime U.S. attorney and state senator, was overpowered by the winner: scrappy, jaunty Lieutenant Governor Frederick Lee Hall...
...since 1951 he has been back in the old belfry composing a bigger and better supernatural peal. So Long as Love Remembers is the story of a young Viennese musician named "Tightpants" Halka, who emigrates to the U.S. under the protection of three guardian spirits: a Knight Templar (the one who saves Olga from Harvard), the Cloisters statue of the Madonna and an ex-captain of the S.S. Europa. In America, Tightpants marries Olga, who hails from Wilkes-Barre and is a living replica of the Madonna. She is also musically inclined and bats out a lyric entitled Bungalow...
...they could gaze at one girl with their souls in their eyes one moment-and turn as he was turning now, to the call of a blonde trollop?" Sabrina Home's bosom (a prominent feature of this novel) was agitated by this question whenever she saw Sir John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join ardent Sir John...
...previous wives and has a rich 18th century answer ready: he locks complainers in a garret until they waste away. Then he buries them in the garden. Luckily, Sabrina does not waste away easily. She is still in fine shape when she is rescued by Sir John Templar's lawyer, who has forethoughtedly dropped poison in Sir William's rum. Indeed, the lawyer is so inflamed by Sabrina that he abducts her to Belgium, where he ties her daily to a bedpost and flogs her. Author Marshall's descriptions of these whippings seem almost pathological-until...
...understand the old hands' tolerance of Oriental life and customs. Moslems got equal justice with Christians in the law courts of Outremer, and the practice of their religion was generally respected. When a Crusader recruit insulted a local Moslem ruler, who was visiting the castle of the Knights Templar in Jerusalem, one of the knights apologized to the sheik, pointing out that the man had just arrived from Europe and knew no better...