September 14, 2022 ON THIS DAY
SEPTEMBER 14, 1994
ACTor Johnny depp demolished his New York hotel room in a drunken rage yesterday as his girlfriend Kate Moss tried in vain to calm him. He had been drinking heavily before his wrecking spree at 5am. He was charged with criminal mischief and locked up.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
IAIN duNCAN SMITH was elected Tory leader last night by a convincing margin and immediately vowed to create an effective opposition to the Government.
The deeply- eurosceptic right-winger defeated former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke by 60 per cent to 40 per cent after a bitter and divisive three-month battle.
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rENzo PIANo, 85. The Italian architect designed London’s Shard and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The son of a builder said: ‘My real love was the building site. For a little boy it is a marvellous place. Eventually, you become an architect but at heart you are still a builder — it’s under your skin.’ JESSICA BroWN FINd
LAY, 33. The actress from Berkshire, who made her name playing Lady Sybil Crawley in downton Abbey, started out as a ballerina, dancing from the age of two, and performed at the royal opera House before failed ankle surgery at 18 dashed her dreams. She says that if her acting work dried up, she would open a sandwich shop.
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zoE CALdWELL (1933-2020). The Australian won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and was described as ‘one of the leading classical stage actors of the last century’. When Barry Humphries, who starred with her in Twelfth Night in Melbourne, told her about Edna Everage, a new character he was devising. Caldwell told him he should play her himself. KATE MILLETT (1934-2017). The u.S. feminist author made her name with the book Sexual Politics. Though massively influential, one of her thesis advisers said reading it was ‘like sitting with your testicles in a nutcracker’. She was perhaps best known in the uK for having to deal with a foul-mouthed, drunken lunge from actor oliver reed on late-night Channel 4
discussion show After dark.
ON SEPTEMBER 14…
IN 1891, John Heath of Wolverhampton Wanderers, scored the first penalty kick in the football league.
IN 1901, William McKinley, 25th uS President, died eight days after being shot. He was the third of — to date — four sitting Presidents to be assassinated.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE CORRECT DEFINITION: Minimony (c 2020)
A) Paying the smallest sum possible. B) Small wedding ceremony that is held instead of a larger celebration.
C) marriage of an extremely young couple.
Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED — Dead of winter: meaning the coldest part of winter; it comes from the 16th-century sense of ‘dead time of’ meaning the period characterised by lack of any sign of life or activity.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
‘Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.’ Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (1854-1912)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY can cricketers iron shirts so well? They know how to spot a crease. Guess The Definition answer: B. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD