ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY 25, 1970
A CONFLICT over the prospect of testtube babies flared yesterday. On one side, medical and Church leaders spoke of their misgivings. On the other, two wives who desperately want babies, revealed the deep human emotions behind the issue. Mrs Sylvia Allen said: ‘There will be no greater thing in my life than to have a baby of my own after five years of marriage.’
FEBRUARY 25, 1999
A RACE relations revolution was heralded yesterday with the publication of the scathing report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. in 335 devastating pages, Sir William Macpherson accused the Metropolitan police force of ‘racism, professional incompetence and bad leadership’ in their hunt for the black teenager’s killers.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JAMEELA JAMIL, 34. The London- born presenter, who has appeared on Channel 4 and radio 1, now lives in the U.S. after winning a role in TV comedy The Good Place — her first acting part. Earlier this month, Jamil revealed that she identifies as ‘queer’ after an online backlash to her being selected as a judge on an LGBT-themed TV show.
DOMINIC RAAB, 46. The Foreign Secretary, who has a black belt in karate, is the son of a Czech-born refugee father who fled the nazis. Although raab denied it, a member of his staff once said he ordered the same meal every day from Pret a Manger: ‘He has the Chicken Caesar and Bacon baguette, SuperFruit pot and the Vitamin Volcano smoothie, every day. He is so weird. it’s the Dom raab Special.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
ANTHONY BURGESS (1917-1993). The Manchester-born author wrote more than 50 books, but is best remembered for A Clockwork Orange, the novel that was turned into a Stanley Kubrick film in 1971. One obituary described him as ‘a great writer who never wrote a single great book’.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919). The French impressionist painter said that art, to him, was about pure joy. His fans included Hollywood star Edward G. robinson, who said: ‘For over 30 years i visited renoir’s Luncheon Of The Boating Party in a Washington museum, and stood before that magnificent masterpiece hour after hour, day after day, plotting ways to steal it.’
ON FEBRUARY 25…
IN 1836, Samuel Colt received a U.S. patent for his revolver firearm. IN 2011, Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, then 56, married his fourth wife, 29-year- old Kayte Walsh, in a Broadway theatre.
WORD WIZARDRY
Guess the definition: Barratry (1400s)
A) Mockery. B) Fraud or negligence by a ship’s master or her crew. C) rowdiness.
Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Money doesn’t grow on trees — meaning money must be earned and does not come freely; coined in the 1800s, it’s a proverb that encourages people to make wise spending decisions.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
HELL is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856-1950)
JOKE OF THE DAY
‘DOCTOR, i think i’m leading a dog’s life.’ ‘Sit on the couch and we’ll talk about it.’ ‘I can’t, I’m not allowed on the couch.’ Guess The Definition answer B.