Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duke University...
...real serious part was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland heightened by a thousand melancholy circumstances . . . Attending the funeral of a father, how little reason soever he had to love him, could not be pleasant...
...This grave scene was fully contrasted by the burlesque Duke of Newcastle-he fell into a fit of crying-but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there . . . Then returned the fear of catching cold, and the Duke of Cumberland, who was sinking with heat, felt himself weighed down, and turning round found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train to avoid the chill of the marble...
...McCarthy hearings ("Have you no sense of decency. Have you, at long last, no sense of decency..."), plays the judge in Otto Preminger's puzzling courtroom story with Jimmy Stewart as the country lawyer, Arthur O'Connel as the drunken partner Stewart arouses, George C. Scott as savage prosecutor, Duke Ellington score and piano...
...insight and makes no clear point. It pushes nostalgia to the brink of extinction. Queen Mother Mary (Eileen Herlie) is a starchy matriarch with a cast-iron devotion to duty. Edward (George Grizzard) is a kind of superannuated adolescent with vague notions of modernizing monarchy. As for the Duke (Patrick Horgan) and Duchess (Ruth Hunt) of York, they caterwaul incessantly about not having had enough on-the-job training to assume the reigns of empire...