Word: humphreyism
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...German-born Empress, Elizabeth Humphrey appears to be thoroughly amused by and admittedly attracted to Edstaston, who turns out to be a prime specimen of the English booby. The attraction is clearly one way, however. Edstaston finds the Russians utterly abhorrent and uncivilized...
...performance as the Russian leader, Humphrey gives one of the most effective performances of the evening, in that the hard edge she gives to Catherine's character demands the audience's attention. And as the supercilious and snooty Edstaston, Ross comfortably slides into Shaw's caricature of the insufferable Englishman...
Goals from Joslin, Jenny Walser, Katie McAnaney and Karen Everling, and two each from Julia French and Julie Clifford staked Harvard to a 8-0 lead halfway through the first half. Yale's Susan Humphrey caught the Crimson defense off-guard and scored on Harvard goalie Kelly Dermody but Crimson Co-Captain Lisi Bailliere then answered Yale with an authoritative coast-to-coast goal...
Invoking the name of the late Vice PresidentHubert H. Humphrey, Flaherty said, "I hope wecontinue our commitment to provide for theservices that the people of the Commonwealth havecome to expect and deserve in order to meet ourbasic commitments to the have-nots, thehave-littles and the anxious haves...
Disk jockeys across the country broadcast Wright's telephone number, provoking a barrage of angry calls from outraged citizens. Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire juxtaposed a bandit's mask with a portrait of Wright, solemnly intoning that "a pay raise without a vote is stealing." Later Humphrey came as close to blows as Senators ever do with fellow Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, who favors the pay hike, during a heated exchange at a committee hearing on the subject. Some of Wright's House colleagues, the vast majority of whom want the raise, have started comparing him, unfavorably...