Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Lords, Earl Winterton raised a practical objection: "I do not think the Primate can have thought very carefully over the results of his action. If this law was put into operation, there would be at least another thousand people in prison. I do not want to be offensive, but they might even include some members of Your Lordships' House...
...forced to slow down. From 1953 until his death, he spent most of his time "aging in the ports and capitals of southern Europe," drinking, bragging, anxious about his "unique physique" and his past performances: "Since my teens I have gone to bed twelve or fourteen thousand nights." He recalls fondly how he kept busy ducking alimony payments, reminisces bravely about the time he kicked Hedda Hopper, curses Hollywood for being "the ruin of creative personalities" like his own. At book's end he pulls himself together, steps back into the only role he was ever able to play...