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...Gilbert was a diehard conservative by conviction, a palace-revolutionary by temperament. When Gilbert heard that suffragettes had chained themselves to the railings in Downing Street, crying "Votes for Women!" he barked: "I shall chain myself to the railings outside Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and yell 'Beds for Men!' " Gilbert's tributes to Queen and Country were usually proffered on the end of a spear. He satirized royalty, the peerage, the law, the clergy, bureaucrats, the Army & Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pooh to a Callow Throstle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Geronimo! (Feb.). In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...rest of this team's inspiration comes from some hidden source that even a month of observation cannot discover. It's more fun than a game to watch Boston's boys practice--they yell, they drive, they cheer when someone catches a pass or gets off a good kick. They look, in other words, like some people out for a good time, with a little exercise thrown in on the side...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

...Boston's main ambitions is to change the status of the wrestling audience. "I want to see the team get lots of support, and what's more important, I want the fans to yell for all the bouts, not just the heavyweights. And I mean yell...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...News Chronicle's Alan Dent wrote: "The emotion this great piece of acting evoked in this normally unenthusiastic breast of mine was re-echoed a thousandfold by the audience's yell of acclamation at the end." W. A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph thought: "He was never less than first rate, and again and again he touched magnificent." Other critics merely repeated this theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Olivier's Lear | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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