Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrounding his personal escapades almost transforms him into a character out of a P.G. Wodehouse novel. He played in the 1921 British Amateur Championship and eliminated the last American contender in the field. That same night, Darwin was accosted on a lonely street by a mysterious stranger who bellowed, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
Earl: "No, sir, I really didn't. I was confused...
...usual sans tie, his feet on a table. The phone rang. It was the President asking about someone he was considering for an ambassadorship. "He's a good man," said Jordan. "But his wife has a serious problem. I may be wrong. I'll check it. Yes, sir." He hung up. He had coolly warned the President of a difficulty. The tone of his voice had never changed. His feet were still on the table...
Died. John Dickson Carr, 70, dapper, scholarly author of more than 100 mystery novels; of cancer; in Greenville, S.C. Under his own name and two pseudonyms (Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson), he created two super sleuths: an Oxford don named Gideon Fell and an engaging buffoon, Sir Henry Merrivale. Carr's specialties were historical mysteries and locked-room murders, involving a corpse found alone in a room sealed from the inside. Though his subject matter was grisly, Carr maintained that "morbidity has nothing to do with it, any more than with solving chess or mathematics problems...
...live in Buckingham Palace to this "flourishing of the British constitutional monarchy"-one of the more "curious social phenomena of the 20th century," as he rightly observes. It is no easy job, and the word paradox gets used freely. In the end, Lacey, the author of a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (and a staffer on the London Sunday Times), has spread his cloak over the puddle and gallantly invented a second Elizabeth to walk across it. If this act of prestidigitation is not a work of art, it is a work of considerable artifice...