Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast easily metamorphoses during the two-hour Pinafore production: Trial by Jury's defendant, played by Monnen, becomes Pinafore's handsome young hero, Ralph Rackstraw. Crowley assumes another leadership position as the ship's Captain Corcoran, and a newcomer to the evening's spectacle, Sebastian Knowles, plays the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. All three men, along with Craig Bierko as Dick Deadeye and Jo Milroy as Little Buttercup, give the evening's most superb performances. Crowley successively displays the Captain's frustrations in trying to convince his daughter Josephine (Nancy Fatzick) to marry Sir Joseph. Countering the Captain's well...
Some politicians, notably the British, cultivate an amiable relationship with hecklers. A man would shout "Rubbish!" during one of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's stump speeches, and Wilson would imperturbably answer, "Sir, we will get to your area of special interest in just a moment." Other politicians have got down to the darker possibilities. Once in 1921, Adolf Hitler led a gang of Brownshirts into a meeting that was to be addressed by a Bavarian federalist named Ballerstedt. "We got what we wanted," Hitler said. "Ballerstedt did not speak." Hitler explained, "The National Socialist Movement will...
...Oxford, a committee headed by Sir Kenneth Dover, master of Corpus Christi College, has been asked to draw up a program of "positive discrimination" in favor of government-school students by next fall. The committee is expected to recommend changes in entrance exams to improve those students' chances. The Chronicle of Higher Education
When Lord Erroll was found shot through the head at the age of 39, in 1941, police arrested one of the cuckolded husbands, Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton, 57. The motive seemed compelling. Broughton's bride of three months, Diana, 27, had fallen in love with Lord Erroll and wanted a divorce. Always the gentleman, Jock acquiesced; he even went so far as to bless the union of his erstwhile best friend and his bride. But as Lord Erroll remarked on the eve of his murder, "He has been so nice it smells...
...Jews are not even Jews, he fails also as a writer." Science Writer Martin Gardner, reviewing The Roots of Coincidence (1972), taxed the author with ignoring research that contradicts the claims of parapsychologists. Even Koestler's monumental and erudite The Act of Creation (1964) caused the eminent zoologist Sir Peter Medawar to grumble that Koestler had "no real grasp of how scientists go about their work." Malcolm Muggeridge dismissed the author as "all antennae and no head...