Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think you could pass a test like that." Lance also told of a zoo visitor who was pleased at seeing a lamb and a lion sharing a pen and praised the zookeeper for fulfilling the biblical prophecy that natural enemies would one day live peacefully side by side. "But sir," replied the attendant, "we put in a new lamb every...
...brass band struck up Waltzing Matilda, and the Odd Couple strode to the dais in Melbourne's Exhibition Building. Two former Australian Prime Ministers of opposing parties, Sir John Gorton (Liberal, 1968-71) and Gough Whitlam (Labor, 1972-75), were on the same political platform...
...aristocratic refugee from occasional Circus assignments now living in the Tuscany hills, where his bookish habits have earned him the sobriquet "the Schoolboy." Westerby carries the spy's classic cards of identity: robust health, womanizing instincts and moral numbness. With words that could have been set to music by Sir Edward Elgar, Smiley reminds his operative of a historian who "wrote of generations that are born into debtors' prisons and spend their lives buying their way to freedom. I think ours is such a generation. Don't you?" Jerry laughs: "Sport, for heaven's sake. You point...
...Hall, who is head of the National Theater, has staged the play as if he were giving a great banquet in St. Mark's Square. Indeed, Hall's Volpone takes all of three hours and includes a funny but rarely played subplot involving two early English tourists, Sir Politic and Lady Wouldbe...
...backed up?". "Is there any cholesterol in those antlers that hang from the ceiling of the Union?," or "As a freshman with hardening of the arteries, are my chances of getting into law school at all diminished?" Questions like that. And answers that would make both Sir Walter Scott (Personalities on Parade) and Ann Landers quite proud, answers like "Yes," "Yes," "Yes," "No, not our lunchmeat," and "Eggplant." Rumors abounded that the Food Services considered the publication so successful (it seems that overzealous freshmen, mistaking them for Freshman Seminar applications, pirated scores of them from the Union at each meal...