Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly 1,000,000 Britons are out of work and the government is trying to hold union wage demands to 5%. Mainly, the dissenters concentrated their fire on the raises for other members of the royal family: the Queen Mother, to $237,500; Prince Philip, to $162,500; the Duke of Gloucester, to $112,500; Princess Margaret, to $87,500; and 21-year-old Princess Anne...
...playwright to be passed on to the audience. Thus one can say that Scofield is perfectly all right as Lear, that MacGowran is a good Fool and that Irene Worth is especially good as Goneril, the oldest and ugliest daughter. Then, too, Alan Webb sensitively portrays the Duke of Gloucester, whose eyes are gouged out with stomach-churning realism. But the instantaneous afterthought is that though these actors have done absolutely superb work onstage, a filmgoer who sees only films would never guess it from this Lear...
...chance to block it." Dandy Dallas' explained, "I said to myself, 'Hey, Hey, this is my big chance to block it. It was and I did." Decherd is presently in the Waltham City Hospital's Blue Bunnies Ward, recuperating from a seven-hour operation to remove the words "The Duke" from his forehead...
Upon reaching the goal line, much to his surprise, he found that instead of "The Duke" tucked under his arms, he was clutching "The Dobbs," a size 7 1/4 brown fedora...
...name of Widener, ran in between Schwartz's legs. The quarterback stumbled, losing his balance and "The Dobbs." Bewildered, Schwartz groped for the nearest semi-round object, as players piled on top of him. Sure enough, in a moment of magic not yet explainable, he ended up with "The Duke," Decherd ended up on top of Schwartz, and the Crime ended up with...