Word: grossmith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added starter in his roll of "society offenders who might well be underground, and who never would be missed." Spinning impishly about the stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself in 1885), he doomed "that singular anomaly, the striking railway-ist-I know he 'II not be missed, he never will be missed." Londoners, plagued by labor squabbles that shut down commuter trains, laughed wryly...