Word: lalla
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...those six touchdowns, Colgate's defensive team has scored four. Without quarterback Dick Lalla, the Raiders are woefully weak offensively...
...Lalla, it must be noted, will be back tomorrow. And his fine T-passes could hurt Harvard...
...nursemaid, Charlotte ("Lalla") Bill, now 77 and retired, King George VI offered his "Grace and Favor": a yellow stone cottage on his Sandringham estate where she may live, rent free, for the rest of her life. Settled in the cottage this week, surrounded by photographs of Queen Victoria and six generations of the British royal family, Lalla recalled her charges: "They were real boys, up to anything, the best any nanny would wish...
Tenniel was just the man to take Doyle's place. "If I have my own little politics," he once murmured, "I keep them to myself and profess only those of my paper." The Victorians most admired Tenniel for his illustrations to romances like Lalla Rookh and The Silver Cord, which today seem absurdly overemphatic. Tenniel's cartoons were something else again, his sharp jabs to the funny bone contrasted tellingly with the roundhouse rights of Punch's rivals. If his cartoons were not invariably from the heart, they always, like Tenniel's Alice illustrations (and like...
England." Though Lalla Rookh, a lushly exotic verse-chronicle of Oriental tribesmen and their passions, testified indirectly to a revival of his libertarianism and brought him his greatest contemporary success, he outlived his fame. Harassed by financial difficulties, weakened mentally in his last years, he died in 1852. A statue, raised to his memory by popular subscription in Dublin, turned out after its erection to have been cast in inferior metal, soon rusted ignobly in the Irish rains...