Word: eunuchs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Byzantine eunuch is a symbol of strength compared with the Teachers' Oath Bill, in which nowhere can one find the slightest penalty provided for its violation. Evidently the statesmen of Massachusetts believe that the wish is the father to the thought, and that once the virtue of patriotism has been given the force of legality, it will become a part of the temperament of the teachers of the Commonwealth...
...story is adapted from the novel by Pierre Louys, "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole." When the picture opens, the island is already dominated by Taxis, the King's eunuch, who has introduced a strict regime of order and repression. Then a young aviator blunders upon the place and naturally falls in love with Pausole's daughter. To escape Taxis' prying eyes, she flees from the palace and is followed by the aviator. Setting out, ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining...
...device for following the mood of the opera. Whatever the mood, it made little impression on the audience. Weaving up & down a runway, the Pasha's wife sang of love in the spring to a tenor in white flannels. The scene was interrupted by a spying eunuch whose voice cracked occasionally. The lover hid in a chest. The Pasha, who wore a dinner jacket and a crimson fez, appeared and sang "There is no ta-a-ble, is there?" The wife replied: "There is none." The Pasha said: "I had for-go-o-tten. We'd no need...
...hydroxy-ketone which he claims is chemically identical with the male sex hormone. Whether it can be used alone or whether, like natural sex hormones, it works best in combination with pituitary, thyroid or adrenal cortex medication, is something pharmacologists must determine. It probably will grow hair on a eunuch's chest. But there is no chance whatever that it will make him a father...
...proffered scores and drawn lots. More likely, John Seymour's opera was chosen because it is brief, inexpensive to produce. It requires only one act for a pasha's wife to philander with a tenor, hide him in a chest which, thanks to a tattling eunuch, the husband orders to be buried...