Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deserving-and undeserving-comers. George I even made "petticoat peeresses" of his mistresses in order, as one peerage pundit noted, "to reward their merits in their respective departments and encourage the surrender of prudery in younger and handsomer subjects." In a preface to the new edition, Sir Anthony Wagner, who as Garter King of Arms is Britain's top working genealogist, concludes that, by Continental standards, the nobility in England has in fact "not existed since the Norman Conquest...
...wage question could be settled if, for example, Mayor Wagner revived Mayor La Guardia's old "locked room" policy--locking negotiators up together in a hotel room until they come to an agreement. For the wage issue only requires sound and skillful negotiating. However, the Mayor has been characteristically absent from the stage of his city's major drama...
...Look, I bought a car," says young Robert Wagner, "nothing special, just a great car. Well, I love that car. It has taken me all over-France, the Alps, Sicily-and I'd never done any of that before. Now, in Hollywood, someone else would get a new model and maybe I wouldn't-you know. And in the States if you worry about wines, people think you're queer or something." Wagner lives in Rome, which has long since sacked Hollywood. Nearly twice as many films were made in Rome last year as were made...
...last all was ready. On Christmas Eve, Weidner and Wagner piled their wives and four children aboard, not forgetting three tons of household belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
Flying Potatoes. "Wah-ah, wah-ah," shrieked the police-type klaxons that Weidner had thoughtfully installed in advance. The Communist guards obediently raised the first of three barriers. But what was a bus doing on emergency duty? Suddenly the shooting began-too late. Wagner, at 40 m.p.h., was already crashing through the second barrier 100 yards ahead, then the third, only 20 yards away...