Two things are well known about Powell and Pressburger’s 1943 epic about the life of an old-fashioned ex-army officer serving in the Home Guard during World War II: Churchill disliked the whole idea of it, and may have thought it was about him, and the Blimp character, over-fed and ...
I would feel sorry for any child who was burdened with such old-fashioned names. I should have made clear that I meant these days. Archie - yes, a fine name for a modern young man when so abbreviated. The late actor Robert (Archibald) Shaw hated it. It is time for pacifists to ...
she is specifically a girl that is not only unattractive, but dresses plainly or old-fashioned as well. One would rarely call an unattractive but smartly dressed girl “homely”, and an attractive woman that’s plainly dressed would be called “frumpy”. In Britain,homelyhas the...
So, my dilemma is that I absolutely love the Victorian/Edwardian style floral names that the “sisters” all had, but I’d prefer to not reuse any more of their names, after using Hortense/Hortensia. My other grandmother (from my mother’s side) was named Marta, and I was very close ...
He found Disraeli’s old-fashioned deference in addressing him amusing rather than obsequious but it would take some getting used to, “Because I’m not. I’m letting him stay here in the Strelitz Suite, but I don’t want them in the Private Apartments. [5] He can use the Green ...
- This is a very old term for sex which plays on our apparent British sensitivity. Rather than saying the actual "sex" word you could refer to having a bit of How's your Father, instead - nudge, nudge, wink, wink. The sort of old fashioned saying dragged up by Austin Powers....
- This is a very old term for sex which plays on our apparent British sensitivity. Rather than saying the actual "sex" word you could refer to having a bit of How's your Father, instead - nudge, nudge, wink, wink. The sort of old fashioned saying dragged up by Austin Powers....
Rennet is an enzyme that curdles milk. In the old days a piece of a freshly-slaughtered male calf’s stomach lining would have been popped into the milk (as still occurs in the production of some non-vegetarian cheeses). These days with the magic of science, we can produce it from bac...
The old-fashioned tortoise-shell tom cat is now almost a thing of the past, and has not been seen here for some years, but there was a tortoise-shell and white cat this time, though considered only good enough for a second prize. Altogether the entries numbered 603, and they came from...
The “Anglo Indian Nabob” was a wealthy Englishman who had made his fortune in India, returned to England, and often bought property and a peerage with his money. The “nabob” term was fashioned in mid 18th century and was applied to people like Robert Clive, the victor of the Battle ...