Word: lauders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more female limbs rapidly manipulated to music. Occasionally William Howard, comedian of the monocle school, advances to the footlights in order to lure back those holders of seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle. He imitates Harry Lauder, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor; he sings, with extraordinary results, a philosophic anthem entitled Let It Rain; he surmises that a talkative lady "must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle"; when confronted by a man who professes to have sprung from a long line of peers, he says: "And I've leaped from...
...series is being arranged because of the enthusiasm which greeted a luncheon of the same character last spring at which Sir Harry Lauder was the guest of the members...
...Harry Lauder, famed Scotch comedian: "Despatches stated that I aspire to become Member of the British Parliament. Said I: 'I have several times been asked to become a candidate, but while I have a strong desire to enter Parliament, I have not had the freedom necessary to devote to the duties. But when I have completed my farewell tour next Autumn I shall, in all probability, stand for election ... if the opportunity presents itself...
Close on the heels of the Bok Peace Plan, pacifism, and Sir Harry Lauder's plea for international friendship comes the opportunity to prepare for war in the offer made to undergraduates by the naval flying station at Squantum. That it is a generous offer there is no denying. It is also a wise one, from the point of view of preparedness. It aims to fit educated men as officers, and this can do the service no harm. It was only too obvious during the war that it was as impossible to make gentlemen by Act of Congress...
...described the poor relation as casting a shadow on the threshold, in the high noon of prosperity.--In prosperity men do their best to forget such shadows. But in poverty and in wartime it is different. There is suffering, and, in thinking of a loss such as Sir Harry Lauder's, there comes to most men the question whether the subject is not worth more thought, and more interest, and more effort in a time of peace such as the present...