Word: hewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed and blare at times as well as sappiness, those musicals were in general the ladyfingers of an age of hooch. The scene of The Boy Friend is a British-flavored bit of the Riviera, the romance is between two frightfully rich young things (Julie Andrews and John Hewer) who represent themselves to each other as awfully poor. "I could be happy with you," they duet, "if you could be happy with me." Between whiles, girls wearing frocks with waistlines near their shins mince about squealing genteel idiocies ; everybody makes remarks of a piercing obviousness; couples tango and Charleston...
...When I was 24," said the old, retired sailorman of South Shields last week, "I married a gentle girl named Marion, three years older than me. We bought a house in Seaton Sluice. I was a coal hewer then, and we were terribly in love.. We both wanted a son. A year after our marriage, 51 years ago, he was born, but Marion died. On the day of her funeral, I handed the baby, John Charles, to my sister Louise to look after. Then I sold the house, packed up and went to sea. I was very young, very...
...University of Vienna, joined a fraternity, got himself properly chopped about the chin in a duel, and thoroughly initiated into the bedrooms of the local frauleins. At 20, after a series of undergraduate bull sessions about free will and Zionism, he lit out for Palestine to be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water...
...Africa, and 2) that the "inferiority" of all other races, especially the Negro, is divinely ordained and therefore unalterable. As editor (of Cape Town's Afrikaans Die Burger), Malan taught Afrikaners that South Africa belonged exclusively to them, that the Negro should know his place as a permanent "hewer of wood and drawer of water." In 1919 he was elected to Parliament as M.P. for the town of Calvinia. His first important achievement: inserting a new phrase in South Africa's Constitution: "The people of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...