Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATTLE FOR BRITAIN (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Michael Caine serves as narrator of the re-creation of England's fight against Nazi Germany's aerial attacks during World War II. It will star Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Michael Redgrave, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Trevor Howard and Curt Jurgens...
...highest federal law officer in Massachusetts. Until July 19, Markham enjoyed a reasonably good reputation in Boston's legal circles. He was known as quick-witted and charming, even though some questioned his legal talents. As U.S. Attorney, he had the distinction of convicting Raymond Patriarca, a New England Cosa Nostra boss, on two counts of conspiracy to murder. Yet he was blamed for allowing four defendants to escape punishment for the $ 1,551,277 Plymouth mail robbery. The Kennedy disaster was a hard blow professionally, since it was only last May that Markham resigned as U.S. Attorney...
...Kennedys have attracted to their campaigns. A 1960 dean's list graduate of Boston College, Tretter volunteered for Ted's first Senate race and worked as an advance man, mapping itineraries and revving up crowds for the candidate's appearance. He now works for the New England Regional Commission in Boston...
...commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...
...privilege of a university education, it gave him great freedom of mind. He could be depended upon to rush in where pedants feared to tread. At the drop of a bourgeois top hat, he would discourse on Moses or municipal drains, on Marx or Michelangelo. Browbeating the Church of England for paganism or instructing mothers on how they should train children-it was all one to Shaw...