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For more than a century, cricketers in England have been divided between ''gentlemen,'' who were amateurs, and "Players," who were professionals. The class lines stem from the rural origins of cricket : local squires led their villagers out to do battle honorably on the green each weekend...
Moore writes of joke-words (squarsons and squishops are clerics who are also squires), long words (honorificabilitudinity, meaning merely "honor"), and grim words (heresy originally meant merely "private opinion," and in the shift of meaning to "private, sinful error" can be read a whole history of religious persecution). Sometimes he...
King Edward VII refused to dine at friends' houses unless Rosa was there to cook the bland, boiled food that, in her words, "would not spill down is shirt front." Edward was an ardent patron of the hotel, which had a private entrance around the corner for merry monarchs...
He is bringing something more than a Round Table with him. In the royal train are eight baggage cars full of scenery, more than 200 people, including 46 stagehands, 41 musicians and 56 actors. Above all, he comes with a pair of gifted squires, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe...
Sir Aggravate & Friend. With Author Lerner, ulcer and all, doubling for sorely missed Director Hart but too busy re-writing to spend much time in the theater Camelot moved forward of its own weight, only slightly trimmed from its original 3 hr. 40 min., while the mood of the cast...