Word: waterloos
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...there is no call for gripes, minor or major, about Mr. Adrian's pleasantly contrived evening. The selections themselves, made by Michael Voysey, are for the most part engrossing, and there are times, as with Shaw's mockery of Sir Henry Irving's performance in Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo, when Mr. Adrian works wonders with his material...
...light; I wish they'd take it away." But the shadow of Wellington and his age fell upon all of English society, and above all, upon England's pride and joy, the army--which Raglan will soon lead to war in atavistic pursuit of the glory of Waterloo...
...tempermental and irrational as his superiors, a fact which was largely responsible for the fatal Charge itself. But it is a concession which obscures the most interesting action of the story, which is the frightfully painful transition from the age of chivalry to that of total war--from Waterloo to Verdun...
...flowers overhead," "a girl with sun in her eyes," "bridge," "fountain," "rocking horse people," "newspapers and taxis," "train," and "train station." The song itself is a description of meeting a girl. In London there is a footbridge with railroad tracks across the Thames which runs between Charing Cross and Waterloo stations called the Hungerford footbridge. On the Charing Cross side there is a dock. To one side are the Victoria Embankment Gardens, to the other the South Bank Gardens. These Gardens are full of flowers, and also serve as a playground for children, who are "rocking horse people...
...polished ritual. Speaking from the heart via the TelePrompTer, the President delivered an oration that might have been composed in honor of Wellington, post-Waterloo...