Word: stapley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfy a grudge against his brother, who has already spent 20 years in the château's deepest dungeons, Laughton plans to force the brother's daughter (Sally Forrest) into marriage with a hand-picked blackguard (Richard Stapley) whom he has tricked into captivity. He introduces the couple ceremoniously, and when they begin to bicker, he gloats: "They've begun by disliking each other. Hatred will come later...
...young Stapley turns out to be no blackguard after all. He is really a black-sheep nobleman, willing to mend his ways for love of Sally. He tells Laughton triumphantly that the scheme has failed and "there's nothing you can do about it." Patiently, as to a child, hitting each word with malevolent emphasis, Laughton drawls: "How wrong you are." As long as a piece of fiendishness remains to be done, and one that demands lip-quivering, eye-rolling relish, never underestimate the power of Actor Laughton...
...complaint to the London Times from Reader Peter Allison of Stapley Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, was headlined, A CRY FROM THE HEARTH. Reader Allison protested that it was "unforgivable" that "a journal so rich in tradition . . . should fall down on this one vital issue which affects every household in the country." The issue, according to Reader Allison: three times he had tried and three times failed to light his fire with a copy of the Times. If he failed once more, he planned to transfer his business "to a newspaper which shows more readily combustible qualities...
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