ON THIS DAY
January 22, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JANUARY 22, 1945 A YouNG schoolmistress in North Scotland had just returned home when she saw a strange man standing outside a window. She went to the door and asked him who he was. He did not understand, so she asked him in Gaelic and French. Then she tried Latin. ‘Quis es?’ she said. ‘Germanus sum,’ the man replied. ‘Millia passum ad domum
ambulavi.’ (I am a German. I have walked several miles to the house). The airman had baled out of his plane. He gave the women his revolver and sat chatting in schoolbook Latin until an armed guard arrived. JANUARY 22, 1966 HIp-SWINGING Welsh pop singer Tom Jones was warned in Sydney tonight to tone down ‘suggestive movements’ in his show. A police inspector said he considered Jones’s act obscene and threatened to close the show.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
pIpER LAuRIE, 86. The u.S. actress (right) starred on film in Carrie and The Hustler and on TV in Twin peaks. She lost her virginity to Ronald Reagan aged 18 while playing the 39-yearold’s daughter in a film. The age difference was reversed when she slept with Mel Gibson (24 years her junior) while filming on one of his first movies. GRAHAM KERR, 84. The London-born cook was one of the first TV celebrity chefs. His series The Galloping Gourmet made him a star in the Sixties and Seventies. Described by the New York Times as ‘hunky and British and funny’, he was once dubbed ‘the most dangerous man in the world’ by Weight Watchers for his high-calorie recipes.
BORN ON THIS DAY
SIR JoHN HuRT (19402017). The star of Alien and The Elephant Man (right) — called the ‘greatest actor in the world’ by director David Lynch — once worked as an art teacher and sold nude portraits to make extra cash. one of his subjects was Quentin Crisp, whom he later played in The Naked Civil Servant. MALCoLM McLAREN (1946-2010). The manager of the Sex pistols made his name with Sex, a shop selling fetish clothing, which he opened with his fashion designer partner Vivienne Westwood. He was arrested in 1977 during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee sailing on a boat down the Thames playing the pistols’ hit God Save The Queen.
ON JANUARY 22…
IN 1901, Queen Victoria died, aged 81, after 63 years on the throne. IN 1924, Ramsay MacDonald became the uK’s first Labour prime minister.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Gules (1609) A) Happy, content. B) The colour red (used in heraldry). C) Downy particles under dirty furniture. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
To be on tenterhooks: Meaning to be in a state of suspense or anxiety; from the Latin
‘tendere’ to stretch. The expression derives from cloth-making and weaving, where material was stretched on a frame called a ‘tenter’ and attached by ‘tenter hooks’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
TRUe freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us. Meryl Streep, Hollywood actress
JOKE OF THE DAY
I WoKE up this morning and forgot which direction the sun rises from. Then it dawned on me. Guess The Definition answer: B.