Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Douglas claims that Richard Nixon, in cahoots with then House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, once sicked 40 federal agents on Douglas in a misbegotten attempt to have the liberal Justice impeached. Even before Nixon, Douglas believed that the secret conference room of the Supreme Court was bugged. Chief Justice Earl Warren once had the FBI "sweep" the conference room, but Douglas remained suspicious, since he thought the FBI probably put the bugs there in the first place. And the feisty old jurist, who originally planned to retire from the Supreme Court in 1969, vowed to stay on until "the last...
...seems obsessed with certain villains, chiefly Richard Nixon and his Chief Justice, Warren Burger. Nixon, Douglas reports, was so vindictive that he denied a dying Earl Warren the use of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Douglas scathingly describes Burger as Nixon's "hatchet man" on the court. Burger used to irritate Douglas, in fact, by ticking off all the liberal landmarks of the Warren Court that he wanted to reverse...
Alec Guinness may have abandoned his Star Wars' light-sword for a more earthly riding crop, but the Force is still with him. In Little Lord Fauntleroy, a CBS-TV movie, he plays the Earl of Dorincourt, a crusty old gaffer gradually softened by his grandson's winsome ways. Guinness, 66, who found himself "with a moist eye now and then" while reading his part, was beguiled by his young costar, Ricky Schroder, 10, who plays the Brooklyn tot turned aristocrat. (This is the third movie version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic: Mary Pickford played "Fauntleroy...
...Earl Clark Port Angeles, Wash...
Excerpt "Sedulously avoiding the standard sights is probably the best method of disguising your touristhood. In London one avoids Westminster Abbey and heads in stead for the Earl of Burlington's eighteenth-century villa at Chiswick. In Venice one must walk by circuitous smelly back passages fair out of one's way to avoid being seer in the Piazza San Marco . . . Each tourist center has its interdicted zone: in Rome you avoid the Spanish Steps ... in Paris the Deux Ma gots and the whole BouF Mich area in Nice the Promenade des Anglais in Egypt Giza with...