Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Sir Rudolf Bing ran a great opera house as if it were his own home. Of sharp tongue and sharper mind, Sir Rudolf tended to every detail at New York City's Metropolitan Opera -- planning the season's repertoire, hiring (and firing) conductors, checking the seamstresses as they worked on costumes. And the divas! Bing did not suffer singers gladly, and prided ) himself on his ability to control prima donnas, cajoling Montserrat Caballe or flaying Maria Callas with equally imperious vigor. In the years immediately following his retirement as general manager in 1972, Bing could still be spotted around...
...looking a day older than when he ended his career, Sherlock Holmes celebrated his centennial last week, as well as his 133rd birthday. Confused? It's elementary. Back in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, the first of 60 works to feature the world-famous detective. Sherlockians figure Holmes was 33 when the story was published. They have also divined that Jan. 6 was his birthday. That conveniently provided Holmes' exact age -- and a date to launch centennial celebrations this year on four continents...
...sorry sir, he has left the meeting." And so forth. It is not clear if anyone knows what is going on. Bureaucratic channels have become so confused that the Philippine Embassy in New York has to keep in touch via the Minister of Agrarian Reform...
Smith Barney, another blue-chip investment firm, started its own brouhaha by suing Goodyear Tire and Rubber and Sir James Goldsmith. To stop a takeover bid by Goldsmith last month, Goodyear agreed to buy back the raider's 12.6 million shares of the company for $52.50 apiece, nearly a 22% premium over their market value of $43. Such buyouts at a premium not available to other shareholders are known as greenmail...
Chiarelli's athletic career isn't confined to hockey, however. He played football and baseball at Sir Robert Borden High School and even tried out with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a free agent camp before deciding that playing hockey and going to college in the U.S. was what he really wanted...