Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camillien Houde. 4. Sir Wilfred Laurier...
...Woof-Woof." Ranged against Williams' side was a vigorous young (34) campaigner of the Tom Dewey stripe, typical of the rising generation in Tory Chairman Lord Woolton's "revivified" party. Anthony Fell's grandfather Sir Anthony had been a Tory M.P. in Britain, but he himself had grown up in New Zealand, scraped an education in state schools and taken his first job on an up-country sheep farm at 12/6 ($2.50) a week. He married a registered nurse who now helps raise their two children in a basement flat...
Reiner didn't get quite the cast he had in mind, but the cast he faced across the footlights was one that no conductor could kick about: big-voiced Leonard Warren as the fat Sir John himself, brilliant young Giuseppe Valdengo, who made his first big U.S. splash as Lago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello, Soprano Licia Albanese and Mezzo Cloe Elmo...