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Serious Business. In London, the Rev. J. S. Wyatt complained at a Church of England assembly about the modern tendency to give tombstones a light touch, cited one recent inscription: "Cheerio. See you soon...
...Cheerio! A whistling cab driver drove them to the lodge at Mayerling, where they spent their last evening writing chummy notes to their friends and relatives. Rudolph signed one note with...
German equivalent of "Cheerio!" Mary bequeathed a fur-piece to one of her former lovers, the Duke of Braganza, and suggested that he hang it over his bed. Then (as Lonyay reconstructs the police and medical evidence) Rudolph blew the top of her head off with his revolver and, after some ten hours, summoned the courage to shoot himself...
Then at last the duke gets up, after eating three eggs with his steak. "Cheerio," he says. "We had a nice meal," he says. And what do the Irish do? As the Archangel Michael's a witness, they cheer. Cheer themselves hoarse, they do, which produces such a parching and a dryness of the entire population that, faith, by the time the young duke and his friends get back to their naval duty at Londonderry, you'd scarce find a sober breath in all Buncrana, and that's in County Donegal on the shores of Lough Swilly...
...radioracle; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Born in Baku, Russia (his parents were a British consular couple). Carter got his radio start in 1930 by covering a local rugby match (no other Philadelphia newsman understood the game). Listeners either loved or loathed his clipped, British-toned accent, his "cheerio" signature, his hyped-up, opinionated presentation of the news...