ON THIS DAY
September 26, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 26, 1947 Judge Wethered from Bristol divorce Court yesterday gave this warning to women: ‘It has happened over and over again in this court that marriage has been wrecked by the woman’s inability to cook.’ he granted a decree nisi to Mr e. S. hart, of taunton, with the words: ‘the tragedy of this marriage is that the wife could not cook.’ SEPTEMBER 26, 1967 CoronatIon Street was blacked out for 15 minutes last night while ItV technicians attended a compulsory union meeting. Viewers in London and the home Counties saw only the last half of the show.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
anne roBInSon, 74. the former host of Watchdog and the Weakest Link has said she thinks she is worth about £50million but: ‘I don’t have an accurate figure.’ In 2001 police investigated complaints of inciting racial hatred when the ‘Queen of Mean’ called the Welsh ‘irritating and annoying’ on tV show room 101. LInda haMILton, 62. the american actress (right) is best known for her iconic role as cyborg-fighting Sarah Connor in the terminator blockbusters. twenty-seven years after her appearance in terminator 2: Judgment day — for which she worked out six days a week — she is filming terminator 6. She was persuaded to return by ex-husband, titanic director James Cameron. and yes, co-star arnold Schwarzenegger will be back, too.
BORN ON THIS DAY
t.S. eLIot (1888-1965). the nobel-prize winning american-born poet wrote the Waste Land and old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. he wore green-tinted face powder, according to his biographer, to make him look ‘modern’. When andrew Lloyd-Webber sought permission from his widow to base his musical Cats on eliot’s poems, he reassured her his felines would not resemble disney animals (t.S. had turned down Walt’s approaches). george raft (18951980). the star (right) of gangster films such as the original Scarface (1932), raft was born in hell’s Kitchen, new York, where he was a boyhood pal of reallife mobster Bugsy Siegel. after a spell as a boxer and baseball player, he turned to dancing and toured europe in the twenties popularising the tango. the duke of Windsor was ‘an ardent fan’ and fred astaire said raft did ‘the fastest Charleston I ever saw’.
ON SEPTEMBER 26…
IN 1960, Cuban leader fidel Castro made the longest speech ever delivered to the united nations general assembly. It lasted almost four and a half hours. IN 2005, Weapons inspectors announced the Ira’s full disarmament.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Agelastic (1877) a) for ever B) Without artifice C) of a person who rarely or never laughs
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Hoity-toity — meaning haughty or snobbish; the phrase may have been ‘hightytighty’ before becoming the current phrase and where the suggestion of height may have led to assumptions of superiority.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
DREaM as if you’ll live for ever. Live as if you’ll die today. James Dean, American actor (1931-1955)
JOKE OF THE DAY
MY WIfe says I’m addicted to auctions, but I stopped after going once . . . going twice . . . Guess The Definition answer: C.