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* 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:
Sir Donald McDuck is mentioned in " The History of The Clan McDuck " by Don Rosa, a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it never got a place in the story at the end.
On the day of the premiere, The New York Times, whose correspondent attended the dress rehearsal the day before, warned, " The music is not up to the standard of Sir Arthur Sullivan.
" The Times praised both the libretto and the music of the first act (" Everything sparkles with the flashes of Mr. Gilbert's wit and the graces of Sir Arthur Sullivan's melodiousness ... one is almost at a loss what to select for quotation from an embarrassment of humorous riches.
In The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Howard acts as one of Scrooge McDuck's many early mentors-others include Sir Quackly McDuck's ghost and a young Theodore Roosevelt.
At the time of its opening in 1934, The Times commented that the building displayed " the same enjoyment of modelling in mass which is Sir Giles Scott's chief personal contribution to contemporary architecture.
Others were his ingenious Satire on False Perspective ( 1753 ); his satire on canvassing in his Election series ( 1755 – 1758 ; now in Sir John Soane's Museum ); his ridicule of the English passion for cockfighting in The Cockpit ( 1759 ); his attack on Methodism in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism ( 1762 ); his political anti-war satire in The Times, plate I ( 1762 ); and his pessimistic view of all things in Tailpiece, or The Bathos ( 1764 ).
Sir John Edward Lloyd ( who wrote as J. E. Lloyd ) ( 5 May 1861 – 20 June 1947 ), was a Welsh historian, the author of the first serious history of the country's formative years, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, 2 vols.
He wrote a 400 page biography of his father, The Life and Times of Sir Charles Barry, R. A., F. R. S., that was published in 1867.
In The Times, Paul Griffiths wrote, " Sir John's seven-year period with the orchestra has been marked by growing orchestral confidence and many memorable performances.
After the third performance of the work, at the Queen's Hall under Sir Henry Wood, The Times wrote, " Continually changing patterns scintillate … till one is hypnotised by the ingenuity of the thing.
The day after his dismissal from the Treasury, Sir Samuel Brittan wrote in the Financial Times that history was likely to record him as one of the better Chancellors, citing his structural reforms of taxation, his determination to give priority to securing and maintaining low inflation and the delayed tax increases in his final budget.
Taylor also wrote about painters, editing the Autobiography of B. R. Haydon ( 1853 ), the Autobiography and Correspondence of C. R. Leslie, R. A. ( 1860 ), and writing Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1865 ).
Among Haydon's other pictures were: Eucles and Punch ( 1829 ); Napoleon at St Helena, for Sir Robert Peel ; Xenophon, on his Retreat with the ' Ten Thousand ,' first seeing the Sea ; and Waiting for the Times, purchased by the Marquis of Stafford ( all 1831 ); and Falstaff and Achilles playing the Lyre ( 1832 ).
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