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...fascinated by your Camelot story. It brought back gleeful memories of being bound in chain armor to play King Arthur himself (because I had the deepest voice in the class of girls) in Sir Henry Irving's version of the play with the same name...
...cashed." A penniless knight-errant, Freud was quite a gallant: "What can it be that you want ... a tooth out of the Caliph's jaw, a jewel from Queen Victoria's crown, a giant's autograph, or something equally fantastic which would mean putting on my armor at once and setting out for the Orient?" Into such hyperbolic reveries crept the unaffected but affecting confession: "I was in love with none and am now with one." He was absurdly jealous and the two had their tiffs...
...missile's propellant was painstakingly perfected as the chemistry of high-energy fuels was tested at half a dozen laboratories. At one point, Raborn's talent scouts had to track down an expatriate German, descendant of a long line of armor makers, who could work the heat-resistant beryllium parts for the missile's control vanes. They found him in Ohio, in a backyard auto garage...
PoHyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the sniffly...
Pollyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original tear-jerking plot like icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the bitter...