Word: dustman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...covering Earl Long's last race for Governor, the great A.J. Liebling wrote, "Politics is to the conversation of Louisiana what horse racing is to England's. In London, anyone from the Queen to a dustman will talk horses; in Louisiana, anyone from a society woman to a bellhop will talk + politics. Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon." 1959 was the year Sam was working for Jimmie Davis, who wrote You Are My Sunshine and whose motto was "I Never Done Nobody No Harm...
...mountain, and I would teach him to recite Shakespeare to me without shouting. He wanted to speak standard English, without the Welsh accent, and I had him read the part of Henry Higgins in Pygmalion." Young Burton probably had more in common, however, with Alfred Doolittle, the free-living dustman in the play, who, as Higgins said, had "a certain natural gift of rhetoric." That gift took Burton to Oxford during World War II, and in 1948, after a mandatory stint in the Royal Air Force, to London's West End, where he soon established himself as a logical...
...sister, Lady Sarah, was an earlier entrant in the nuptial derby, but was scratched when she remarked one evening, "I really enjoy being with [Charles ... but] I'm not in love with him. I wouldn't marry anyone I didn't love, whether he were the dustman or the King of England." One of her companions that night turned out to be a reporter, and the story hit Fleet Street the next...