Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife of an admiral who is also cousin to the King, handsome Lady Mountbatten cuts a dashing figure and runs a big house. She has never lacked cash; as granddaughter of Banker Sir Ernest Cassel, she is the life beneficiary of a ?1,406,250 (about $5,600,000) trust fund. Last week her solicitors let it be known that Lady Mountbatten was broke and would shortly ask the House of Lords to pass a bill permitting her to break Sir Ernest's trust...
Tory M.P. and Punch Editor Sir Alan (A. P.) Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
...fashioned stairs in her London home, caught her foot in the hem of the fur coat she was carrying, tumbled down again. A sprained back forced her to step out of her three current Old Vic roles for two weeks. Said Vivien: "It was a beautiful fall." Said husband Sir Laurence Olivier: "My God, I thought she had broken her neck...