Word: sirrah
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...John Ruskin; the ball point, Madonna. A man with a fountain pen in hand holds in the secret places of his heart starched cuffs and high collars, a company with "transcontinental" in its name, pince-nez, muttonchops, and dourvisaged exclamations like "There are laws against that sort of behavior, sirrah." The trouble with America today is that there are too few men with dour visages who exclaim "sirrah" and too many who skip, leak, jam, run out quickly and can be replaced for 69¢. Robert E.L. Richards Westfield...
...tickle-brain, thinkest thou the brawny lacketh brain? To denote the 50th anniversary of the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, good Master Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres, and his most puissant teammate, Master Tony Gwynn, are posing for a prankish publicity poster to help the theater. Sirrah, they are patrons both...
...Harvard but dropped out after a year. Scott, whose poem bad news has been published in Los Angeles magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college this fall. Schulberg is equally high on the talents of Leumas Sirrah, 18, a high-school student whose poems are generally lyrical abstractions about God and life, and Jimmy Sherman, 22, whose four-stanza verse TH' WORKIN' MACHINE is being set to music by television's Steve Allen...
...with 50? and an unnegotiable name: Yehuda-Leib Siew. This he changed to William Laurence-the surname chosen for the street he lived on in Boston. He taught himself a kind of English by comparing Russian and English versions of Shakespearean plays and practiced on unamused trolley conductors: "Holla, sirrah, wouldst prithee halt...
That Brandeis students are cynical does not surprize me--they are assigned more Nietzsche than Locke; but that they too are hypocritical is an observation which (sirrah!) the record does not support. The student who told Mr. Rosenthal that she gives a higher figure for non-Jewish enrollment because it "sounds good" is just a patriot turned inside-dopester...