Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was small consolation to airmen or British taxpayers who had paid an estimated $28 to $40 million for the governmental bungling that had caused the flop. Said Avro Managing Director Sir Roy Dobson: "I will have to have a contract written in rock before I will build another civil aircraft. I would like to see the whole lot [of Tudors] swept out and burned so that we can forget this ghastly chapter and start again...
...refreshing breeziness and bounce which make the old tale believable and now & then lift it right out of its tatted frame. Other notable performances are Margaret O'Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Lucille Watson. The whole package is so richly wrapped in romantic period sets and costumes that the final shot is unnecessary: a pastel, picture-postcard rainbow rises out of the subsiding suds and sentiments to arch the happy ending...
Garrick was thought especially successful as Hamlet; his start of terror at seeing the ghost was considered one of the 18th Century stage's great moments. Only the more critical Johnson refused to 'be impressed. Asked Boswell once: "Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does if you saw a ghost?" "I hope not," Johnson replied. "If I did, I should frighten the ghost...