Word: quids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever Laurence Olivier and Sir Ralph Richardson, the two leading men of London's Old Vic, took time off to make a movie (and a few quid), the players felt deserted. There was nothing for it, the company decided, but to produce an outstanding young actor to fill in. So they...
...distinction is this: "To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself." Max Beerbohm is quoted, from Quid Imperfectum...
Admittedly, the new proposal would be difficult to work out in satisfactory detail. But by providing a practical quid pro quo, the plan dodged one sort of difficulty. By placing a minimum reliance on international inspection, the plan greatly reduced another objection. And by providing that, in case the whole scheme failed, no nation would suddenly find itself in greater peril than it would otherwise, the plan avoided the greatest objection...
...your head, reader? What recent gains in sensibility have you to register? Do you read or think as much as you used to? You are aware no doubt that your consumption of tobacco and alcohol has practically doubled . . . you will plank down three quid for a bottle of Scotch, you can't be trusted with a railway towel or a piece of hotel soap . . . and [you] write to the Times against Picasso; you're more antiSemitic, even, than before...
...Quid vobis videtur?" ("What do you think?") inquired the Pope. The Princes of the Church stood up, removed their red skullcaps, bowed in assent. The papal proposal was not a surprise to them: the Pope's intentions had been announced to all the world two months...