Word: piperisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McGregor put on his spiked shoes and indicated that he was ready to play. But Savitt, who refuses to wear spikes, testily told Referee Frank Piper: "I forfeit in singles and doubles." Savitt figured that McGregor might have an unfair advantage; he somehow failed to figure that he was doing nothing to counteract the recent charge made in Manhattan by Davis Cup Captain Frank Shields that Savitt had been no "credit either as a player or a representative of America...
Lastly, a respectful suggestion to the management. Many emigree-Scots present felt that business at the Kenmore would be enhanced if it featured Kerr's five cent butterscotch and Dundee shortbreads at the candy counter, and provided a piper under the marquee from six to eight to draw, and then to serenade, the waiting crowds...
...original motto of Scotland's Order of the Thistle is: Nemo me impune lacessit (No man provokes me with impunity). Rough translation of Reader Henderson's paraphrase: "No one may milk me without paying the piper...
DANCE TO THE PIPER (342 pp.]-Agnes de Mille-Little, Brown...
...pattern of the next two decades. For Agnes de Mille, against the forceful objection of her father, Playwright William de Mille, and of her uncle, Movie Producer Cecil B. de Mille, set her foot on the thorny way to become a famous dancer. In Dance to the Piper, her autobiography, she tells how she slowly made the grade. Dance to the Piper is considerably more than the success story of a poor little rich girl. It is a witty, civilized account of an age of revolution in the dance, by one of the spunkiest of the revolutionaries...