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Word: sirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People live, wake up! Miss Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh, Miss Bentley! Cough, get up, take pills, move around! ... The sun began to rise. He folded his arms and smiled a magician's smile. Yes, sir, he thought, everyone jumps, everyone runs when I yell. It'll be a fine season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Summer of '28 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...would like to be known as Sir Charles, not Sir Charlie," announced Charlie Chaplin, 85, shortly after receiving his long-overdue knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Chaplin, who arrived for his investiture at Buckingham Palace clad in morning clothes and blue suede shoes, accepted his dubbing from a wheelchair, then retired to the Savoy Hotel to accept congratulations from Prime Minister Harold Wilson and other fans. "I was too dumbfounded to talk to the Queen," confessed Sir Charles later. Less awed was his daughter, Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 30, who came to London for the ceremonies with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 17, 1975 | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...Sir George Catlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 10, 1975 | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...Sir George Catlin is the father of Shirley Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 10, 1975 | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...your feet, I guess, It's an eclectic as it should be--the first-act finale is vaguely reminiscent of "Another Opening, Another Show" from Kiss Me, Kate, and I'm told there's also a direct quotation from an all but totally obscure pre-Gilbert opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan--but the tunes aren't very memorable, and O'Donnell's lyrics ("We're not exactly in Utopia. Our queen could scarcely be dopier") don't seem up to the rest of his script, either. In the second act, the silliness of having songs at all often lends them...

Author: By Seth Kupferherg, | Title: A Fractured Fairy Tale | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

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