Word: mervyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into London's Marylebone Magistrates' Court for a hearing to decide whether his case should be referred to the Old Bailey for trial. The charge: eight counts of procuring, living off the earnings of prostitutes, running a brothel and arranging abortions. In his opening statement, Prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-Jones warned that the hearing would unfold a "somewhat sordid story." It was sordid all right-and more than somewhat...
...Actress Wood is everything anybody could ask (5 ft. 2 in., 98 Ibs.) of a cute little trick, she can hardly fill the billing (5 ft. 9½ in., 130 Ibs.) of the lusty, busty broad who was known as "the Gene Tunney of burlesque." But thanks to Director Mervyn LeRoy, the show itself is remarkably well-built-big and brassy, loud and fast. As for Actress Russell, she defies description...
...says. "Someone called out. This way for girls who speak English.' 'Sure!' I told the man, 'my daughter speaks English. Don't you speak English, Sophia?' 'Sì, Mamma.' And we found ourselves in a room with lots of people and Mervyn LeRoy sitting in a chair. He said in English, 'Do you speak English?' And Sophia asked me in Italian what he was saying. They realized we were bluffing, but for our courage they gave us both jobs as extras in Quo Vadis...
...panel discussion following Chen's talk, Mervyn Jones, a British free-lance journalist, discussed the prevailing in English secondary education. Jones, a one-time candidate for Parliament on the Labor ticket, criticized the close correlation between public school attendance (3 per cent of the total of secondary school students) and access to positions of influence in business, industry, government, and the professions...
...choir chanted a somber psalm and middle-aged women prayed in silence, scarlet-hooded bishops cast Vicar Thomas out of the Church of England. They read from I Samuel ("And I will raise me up a faithful priest") and Matthew ("Beware of false prophets"). Then the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood, rose to pass final judgment: "By the authority committed to us by Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, we remove, depose and degrade William Bryn Thomas from all clerical offices...