Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kitchen; Roberts, milady's personal maid, is minding everybody's business but her own; and Rose, our own Rose, is looking noble. Upstairs, Lady Marjorie is reigning once more as empress of the morning room, stopping from time to time to arch an autocratic eyebrow at Husband Richard Bellamy. Daughter Elizabeth has caught a bad case of socialism, and Son James is dallying with Sarah, the underhouse parlormaid. Keeping everyone in place, of course, is the butler Hudson, better known as the admirable Hudson...
...House of Commons, gratefully asks their guest to take his place and escort his wife to Tristan und Isolde at Covent Garden. Naturally they fall in love over a Liebestrank, and soon the magnificent Lady Marjorie (Rachel Gurney) is cavorting in Hammond's bed, away from home, husband and servants...
...together, the new episodes have a more lurid color than the old ones. In one, Elizabeth (the stunning Nicola Pagett) discovers that her poet husband (Ian Ogilvy) is impotent, at least as far as women are concerned. Turning pimp, he persuades his publisher to perform his husbandly duties upstairs while he reads his drivel to a party in the drawing room. In another, Sarah (Pauline Collins), who has quit her downstairs job, returns to disrupt the other servants with seances and other outlandish acts. It is hinted that she and Rose (Jean Marsh, co-creator of the series...
Lurid or not, the writing is almost always first-rate, an oasis of literacy in the vast wasteland. When Elizabeth wants a motorcar, for example, she tells her husband that it has all of 18 horsepower. "What," he demands, "do you know about horsepower?" "Anyone can understand horsepower," she replies matter-of-factly. "It's a most evocative phrase...
People have talked about making January 15th a national holiday for nearly a decade now, but regrettably the discussion has continued even longer in his home state of Georgia. His widow, Coretta Scott King, in 1971 asked a Georgia governor to declare her husband's birthday a state holiday. Governor Jimmy Carter refused, saying the Federal Government should take the lead. President Jimmy Carter, who has held the nation's highest office for almost two years, yesterday received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize from Mrs. King. Seventeen year veteran Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), told...