Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Sir Alfred was safely seated, Amateur Painter Churchill, whom everyone had expected to be the big gun of the evening, rose to his feet. "No one can doubt," he said in a restrained voice, "that our president holds-er-strong views. But it is fitting that a president of the Royal Academy should have a properly pronounced opinion quite rightly corrected by his colleagues...
...course of the night, 40 BBC listeners protested Sir Alfred's "damns," and another 14 sent congratulations on his forthrightness. Said Sir Alfred in the morning: "I apologized to the archbishop last night, but I repeat, it [modern art] is all a lot of damned nonsense...
...feel to be 70? Roared Britain's famed and sometimes fatuous conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, over a transatlantic telephone to a U.S. newsman: "It doesn't feel like 70 at all, old boy. It doesn't feel like anything at all, and I'll feel like that at 75 and 80 and beyond. I'll go on conducting to the end of my days, which is a hell...
Last week, as chubby, goat-bearded little Sir Thomas was celebrating his 70th birthday, a good part of England was helping him along. Even the British press, in the recent past not so charitable about their great conductor's churlishness, blossomed with flowery lead editorials on the great day. Said the Times: "Music is the medicine of the mind and Sir Thomas . . . is among the best doctors of the age, combining high professional skill with a highly popular bedside manner." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sir Thomas . . . has always been and will always be an individualist. Everybody, including those...
...Prerogative. Doughty Sir Thomas himself had no intention of disappointing anyone. Boomed he: "I intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool...