Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady Bridget Parsons, was arrested and charged with drunken driving. Tony's erstwhile great and good friend, a Chinese actress named Jackie Chan, was all too conspicuous in the British press; last week she announced that she had just cut her first record (But No One Knows and Gentlemen Please) because "it seems a good time for it to be released...
...Gentlemen, I love and like you, Caring little for your...
What Is Suitable. Medieval marriage was more fearful than joyful. Titled gentlemen thought nothing of punching their wives in the face, and ladies were often disfigured for life with broken noses. Husbands were cruelly vindictive to errant wives. When the Dame de Fayel's husband discovered that she kept her dead lover's heart in a casket, he had it plucked out and served up in a stew. Though the clergy openly kept concubines till the 16th century, bodily love bore the taint of anathema. Sample bedgear for many a medieval wife was the chemise cagoule, "a heavy...
...saloon" for the gentry and a "public" bar for the lower classes, where a pint is a penny cheaper. Dog-eared signs command: "No Singing," "No Gambling," "No Credit." Listening to phonograph records or sports broadcasts is forbidden. Finally, there is the most exasperating restriction of all-"Time, gentlemen, please," which is the theme song of the most bewildering set of license laws in Christendom...
...London pub may stay open only nine hours each weekday, and these hours must be divided into 'one period around lunchtime and one period in the evening. But since each borough or local council can fix its own hours, no one can be sure just when "Time, gentlemen" will be called. As if the pub situation were not confusing enough, a hotel guest, while able to drink at any time because he is legally "at home," cannot offer a friend a drink when the local pub is closed. Nor can a grocer sell a housewife liquor, though...