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...early decided what his own role in the House should be. He would sail against the prevailing windbags. For 14 years, while party bigwigs huffed & puffed about Munich and the dollar gap, Member Herbert concentrated on unpretentious but warmly human legislation. Items: more lenient divorce laws, Sunday theater, uniform pub hours. It was not always easy. Introducing a bill could become an endurance test. He more than once "bumped," i.e., bobbed up & down, for four and five hours before he finally caught the Speaker...
...there are the favorite haunts which the girls visit regularly, including the Cider Mill, a museum about two miles from the campus; the solarium, the discreet roof of Kenyon Hall "for unrestricted sunbathing"; and the Alumnae House pub and Retreat, two campus food dispensaries...
Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...
...Pub-crawling had increased tenfold...
While the father is escaping from his troubles in a country pub, the son stores up anxieties. Why has his father deserted him? Why is it Uncle Adrian, and not his father, who breaks the shocking news that the buried woman was really his stepmother and that Philip's own mother was an unfaithful first wife...