Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart to be true...
...show, and broadcast the traditionally stately doings over BBC. Amid the clinking of port glasses and the deep, decorous buzz of voices, radio listeners heard the sonorous accents of the toastmaster calling upon His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and others for appropriate little speeches. At last, R.A. President Sir Alfred Munnings rose to speak, and almost broke up the party...
...faced Sir Alfred, 70, had made his reputation as an able painter of fine horseflesh. More recently, he had been worsted by Tate Gallery Director John Rothen stein in a public test of the Academy's taste in art collecting (TIME, March 14] and announced his decision to retire nex year. But Horse Painter Munnings was still feeling his oats; he made the R.A. dinner an occasion to register his emphatic nay to modern...
...before he got around to blasting the offending Forest, some of Sir Alfred's less conservative colleagues stopped squirming and started shouting. From the back of the room came cries of "That's beautiful!" and "Lovely work!" Munnings turned a shade redder, sputtered: "I hear other members interrupting me ... I am president and I have the right to speak. I shall not be here next year, thank...