Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Is Coming. Ins, of course, know each other by language and manner as well as by sight. Yet the Duke of Bedford, who eagerly invites crowds of shilling-paying visitors to his stately country home, has become an out, says Queen's Stevens, "because he has comnlercialized what he has inherited, and enjoyed doing it. It is 'in' to open your house to the public, but you must say, 'Oh, what a bore this is.' " Land is important to all ins, "but only an out would inquire the number of acres. Instead, one asks...
...speech won the standing applause of a majority of the Assembly. Later, to newsmen, Premier Debre explained his position in more earthy language: "Whatever people may say or think, there is a parliamentary regime in France. The constitution provides a number of ways a government may be turned out of office, notably through a motion of censure, as in Great Britain. But the procedure of oral questions followed by a vote is the same as syphilis-first it weakens, then it kills...
...kinda funny when Ah say 'Perish on mah sword,' " mused a Colt-toting Texas lad, and it may be even funnier than he supposed. This week he and 27 other Texas students are due in London with what is likely to be the oddest U.S. export to Britain this year-an "adult western" version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Howard Payne College (enrollment: 1,100), a Baptist school in Brownwood, west of Waco...
...Howard Payne Dream will be sole U.S. representative at Bristol's prestigious International Festival of University Theater, and for nine weeks will get top billing at professional theaters in Coventry, Northampton, Cambridge, and Dundee, Scotland. If this is the way to meet up with ole Shakespeare, the students say, "we feel raht at home doin...
...promoters had other things to say when the jocks were out of range. "Some of these guys actually believe they're God," said one. Explained another: "Suppose a D.J. calls New York and says he wants to see the city. What are you going to tell him-to pay for it himself? You pay for his hotel and his meals and his liquor, and if he wants a girl you pay for that. An average New York weekend will cost the record company $500 to $1,000, and if you don't pay it there's another...