Word: gartered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose classmates at the Royal Naval College at Osborne would on occasion ignominiously guillotine him in a partly opened window -in stern reminder of the fate of Charlie I, a King who stepped on too many...
...nearly $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate ventures. His later success as a Broadway producer ("I believe in giving the customers a meat-and-potatoes show. Dames and comedy") brought in big money almost as fast as Todd got rid of it. The Hot Mikado (1939), Star and Garter (1942), Mexican Hayride (1944) and Up in Central Park (1945) were so successful that by 1947 Todd's creditors numbered more than 100 and sued him for more than...
...Bank on the fate of 100,000 paper clips revealed that out of the 100,000 clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...
...those breezy, mass-aimed, gag-and-garter comedies that now and then run for a year or more, Fair Game boasts a decidedly helpful production. Sam Levene is a deft low-comedy actor, Ellen McRae a fresh and attractive heroine, Robert Webber a likably convincing hero. They endow the show's better scenes with life and laughs, and Playwright Locke has a knack for bright broad lines. But bad hobbles after good, and crude latches onto clever in a shamelessly oversolicitous, never-change-the-subject exploitation of the girl-who-cries-wolf theme. Fair Game not only tosses...
...citizen of a free association of nations unlike anything in the world before. The angry towhead who once screamed to the world that he was "Philip-just Philip" has not only acquired a hairbrush, but a sonorous list of ranks and titles-he is a Knight Commander of the Garter, the officially designated "First Gentleman of the Realm,"* His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth. Baron Greenwich, Field Marshal, Air Marshal and Fleet Admiral of the Royal Navy-and an allowance of pocket money from the privy purse sufficient ($112,000 yearly) to maintain...