Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monty Python cackles on the tube and Michael Smith from Leicester, England cracks up as he takes in his nightly dose of British humor (or humour as they say over there) like an addict in a methadone clinic. No one else in the room gets the joke...
...Smith, without a doubt the most alented soccer player at Harvard in the last four years, had to adapt to a number of changes since coming to the States last fall on something of an impulse. But he has not lost his British sense of humor and not much seems to faze...
...weeks to get ready, so I came," Smith explains. And he does not regret it. He feels that the well-rounded American liberal arts education is much better than the specialized English university education, where one only takes courses in one's concentration...
...soccer "pitch" he is in his element, having played the sport since grade school. By the time he was 15, Smith was playing up to 100 games a season and he made the last 22 of the British junior national team in his senior year. But, even there, Smith had to adapt. "It's certainly the first time, at the school level, that I've been on a losing team," he says. "In a few games it's hurt my game. Sometimes it seems it's been a struggle...
After these high, fast steps, The Duchess of Duke Street hits its stride. The hotel provides a center for succeeding episodes, and a staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally...