Word: northumberland
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...jacketed toughs, while chauffeured Bentleys delicately inched their way through. Wild-eyed girls with straggly black hair and blue-jeaned boys with golden tresses were frog-walked into paddy wagons. Some 200 people were jailed. Taking advantage of the chaos, a six-man gang waylaid the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, sped off in a white Jaguar with her jewels, worth $200,000. Most shocking of all, for the first time in her eleven-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II was booed by her own people...
...question of continuity with Richard II and Part Two) is to develop themselves on the stage to justify the descriptions. This Philip Kerr's Hotspur accomplishes splendidly. Begining as a simple hothead, "nettled, and stung with pismires when I hear/Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke," laughed at by his elders (Northumberland and Worcester), Kerr refines and solidifies Harry Percy into a striking gay fanatic, the man who mistakes...
Domestic service in the 18th century was full of fun for any country boy or girl-there were so many of them that nobody had to work very hard. Sets of tall, matched footmen preceding one's sedan chair (the Countess of Northumberland had nine) were an 18th century equivalent of his-and-her Cadillacs. With little to do and plenty to drink, footmen frequently wrought havoc among the maids, cooks and nurses, but no one liked to break up a set of footmen when things got out of hand, so it was usually the seduced girl...
...voice, though there is more to be had from his farewell speech, as grand a paean to England as ever was penned. As staged here, Gaunt walks slowly off stage in apparent good health; no sooner is the last of his gown out of sight in the wings when Northumberland (solidly played by Will Geer) bounds back into view to report Gaunt's death. Now Shakespeare is partly to blame, for he wrote only eight lines between Gaunt's last words and the announcement of his death. The director should handle this better, however; for example, by having Gaunt slump...
More than a little frightened as well as fed up, after six months of such goings on, an unemployed British laborer named George Leek took his troubles to his church. The Rev. Clement White, vicar of St. John the Evangelist Church in Percy Main, Northumberland, was sympathetic but hesitant. Ghosts these days seem to be plaguing Britain's Anglican parishioners in greater numbers than at any time since possessed souls were burnt at the stake centuries ago. The demand for exorcism has become so prevalent that churchmen are seriously concerned. Only last month, the House of Laity (which, along...