Word: sir
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...military academy "to become a man"--why else?--amid his concern for the effectiveness for his payoffs, Robertson's Baldwin is, in character and enactment, as limited as only a Hollywood actor could imagine corporate America to be. Julie Newton, whose delivery of an endless stream of "Yes, sir's" would warm Patton's heart, has precisely the degree of emotionlessness one would require of a secretary. Unfortunately, one requires a bit more than that from an actress...
...Hogarth to David Levine pass in review. Ministers of the 19th century wither under Daumier's derision; Thomas Nast sweeps out Tammany Hall; George Grosz annihilates Germany between the wars. But Historian and Art Critic William Feaver's text also makes room for such sly performers as Sir John Tenniel, who created a Wonderland for Alice, and Sir Leslie Ward ("Spy"), whose work has decorated lawyers' offices for almost a century. Those with a taste for more recent vintages may find them in the pages of Man Bites Man, Two Decades of Satiric...
Students of history find themselves confronting a rift among modern historians. Many, following the school of the great English historian Arnold Toynbee, attempt to systematize history, fitting it into a series of patterns and cycles with scientific elegance. Others, like Sir Charles Oman, contend that the human record is illogical, that history is a series of happenings with no inevitability about it. As Leon Trotsky once observed, cause in history "refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...
Christmas Cards: One of the newer Christmas traditions, Christmas cards originated shortly after the inauguration of England's penny post. The first Christmas card, made by J.C. Horsley for Sir Henry Cole in 1843, sold 1000 copies...
...presence, I thought, was depressing Santa, so I stood and said, "Well, sir, I'd better be going...