Teddy Roosevelt’s Attorney General, Philander Knox, is reputed to have said: “Mister President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality,” as a wry comment on TR’s methods in getting the canal built and the country of Panama created.
Theodore Roosevelt was called “Teedie” by his close relatives, and “T.R.” by his friends. He preferred the title “Colonel,” from his Spanish American War service, to “Mr. President” after leaving office. He always disliked the nickname “Teddy.”
Theodore Roosevelt was the first Vice-President to succeed to the presidency upon the death of the President, and then to be elected in his own right.
More than one of us here is in a pretty deep rut, so it seems. :dubious:
The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, in early Christian theology, originated from a teaching of Solomon recorded in Proverbs Chapter 6. The list was developed by the 4th century monks Evagrius Ponticus and John Cassian, and were recorded in their current form in the 7th century by Pope Gregory I and Dante Alighieri. They are: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.
Zasu (zay-sue) Pitts was a long-time comedic chararcter actress, and often is said to have more of her scenes cut from a movie because she was far funnier than the star (she even held her own opposite W. C. Fields). But her first major starring role was as the greedy and doomed Trina in Erich vow Sroheim’s Greed.
Harry Pitts was cited as one of the worst/best examples of unfortunate name selection by parents in a book on the subject by some folks at Ancestry.com. Other examples were Gamble Moore, Doctor Love and children named after all seven of the Deadly Sins.
MTM Productions, found by Mary Tyler Moore, had an onscreen logo based on that of MGM, but with a cute little kitten and not a roaring lion. For two of its most famous TV series, St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues, the kitten was wearing a surgical mask and a police hat, respectively.
I’m not trying to be snarky, but for the life of me I can’t see the connection between the last two entries. What am I missing? Can someone help?
The name Moore.
The name of that cat was “Mimsy.”
Thanks! I think I need a nap.
“Mimsy were the Borogoves” is both a line from the Lewis Carrol poem “Jabberwocky” and the title of an influential sf short story by Lewis Padgett.
In Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll coined the words chortle, galumphing and burbled.
The county seat of Carroll County, Ohio, is Carrollton, home of “the fighting McCooks.” According to Wiki, two brothers, Daniel and John McCook, and thirteen of their sons were actively involved in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, making the family one of the most prolific in American military history. Six of the McCooks reached the rank of brigadier general or higher. Several family members were killed in action or died from their wounds.
Valour Road in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is named in memory of three members of the Canadian Army who all earned the Victoria Cross in WWI (two posthumously). They all lived on the 700 block of the street. It is believed to be the only case in history where three future recipients of the VC lived on the same street, let alone the same block.
The inscription on the Victoria Cross is simply “For Valour”.
The Pour le Mérite, known informally as the Blue Max, was the Kingdom of Prussia’s highest military order for German soldiers from 1740 until the end of World War I in 1918. The inscription was in French because that was the court language in Prussia at the time. The nickname possibly comes from its blue color and the fact that its first recipient in WW1 was fighter ace Max Immelmann. The official name survives in Germany’s top civilian honor for scientists and artists, the Pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste.
The Iron Cross was originally a Prussian military reintroduced as a German military award by Adolf Hitler in 1939. Two Jewish officers of the Finnish army were awarded Iron Crosses but refused to accept them. Joan Pujol Garcia, a Spanish double agent, received both the Iron Cross and British MBE. The latter for running a “network” of 25 fictitious agents feeding eroneous intelligence to the Germans.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo García, a film written and directed by Sam Peckinpaugh, has been both attacked and praised by critics.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus spoofed Sam Peckinpaugh’s gory movies with a sketch that showed a tranquil English garden party marred by many lopped-off hands, legs, and heads.
When Charles I’s head was cut off on a scaffold outside his Whitehall banqueting room, one seventeen year-old boy in the crowd at Whitehall recorded that the execution was met with ‘such a groan as I have never heard before, and desire I may never hear again’.