July 13, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUly 13, 1943
A REMARKABLE story of the nation’s success in growing war-time vegetables was told to me by Dr H. V. Taylor, Horticulture
Commissioner to the Ministry of Agriculture. The change in diet can be summed up: Pre-war: Meat the main dish. Vegetables the ‘fillers’. Fruit a health accessory. Now: Meat a ‘flavouring’. Vegetables provide nourishment and give the vitamins and minerals formerly derived from fruit.
JUly 13, 2000
COMMONS Speaker Betty Boothroyd, 70, dropped a bombshell yesterday by announcing her intention to quit this autumn. The former Tiller Girl, who eight years ago became the first-ever woman to be elected to the position, will retire as an MP at the same time.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TuLISA CONTOSTAVLOS, 34. The London-born singer found fame with hip hop trio N-Dubz. She formed the band when she was 11 and they had a No 1 hit with their song Number 1. As an X-Factor judge, she mentored Little Mix and Ella Henderson. She spoke out about suffering from Bell’s Palsy to silence online trolls who criticised her looks.
IAN HISLOP, 62. The Swansea-born satirist, ‘the single most influential voice in British politics’, has edited Private Eye for 36 years and been a team captain on the BBC’s Have I Got News For You for 32. Known for fending off libel cases, he said: ‘If you don’t annoy anyone enough for them to send you a writ, then you’re not doing your job.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
SIMONE VEIL (1927-2017). The French politician, an Auschwitz survivor, was among the first cohort of MEPs and was the first president of the European Parliament. She battled to legalise abortion in France and said of her critics: ‘The assembly was mainly filled with men, some of whom were secretly looking for contacts to arrange an abortion for a mistress.’
JACquES PERRIN (1941-2022). The French actor, who according to one obituary ‘didn’t smoulder so much as twinkle’, starred in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso and appeared opposite Catherine Deneuve in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.
ON JULY 13...
IN 1990, Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg (who won an oscar for her role), was released. IN 2013, the hashtag #blacklivesmatter was used for the first time.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: roamer (2017)
A) A computer hacker. B) Someone who moves from one country to another to live and work. C) An electronic homing device.
answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Dead cat bounce:
meaning a misleading sign of vitality in something that is moribund; the idea that a dead cat might bounce if dropped from a great height; 20th u.S. traders use it to refer to a temporary recovery from a big drop in a share’s price.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant, U.S. writer (1885-1981)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT made me punch my keyboard? I lost Ctrl.
Guess The Definition answer: B
Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD