ellauri106.html on line 654: Henry Aldrich
ellauri106.html on line 656: Aldrich-perhettä, suosittua radion teini-ikäisten tilanteiden komediaa, esiteltiin myös elokuvissa, televisiossa ja sarjakuvissa. Radiosarjan avajaisvaiheessa hankala teini-ikäinen Henryn äiti soitti: "Hen-reeeeeeeeeeeee! Hen-ree Al-drich!", Ja...
ellauri106.html on line 661: Henry Aldrich (1647 – 14 December 1710) was an English theologian, philosopher, and composer. To him we owe the well-known catch, "Hark, the bonny Christ Church bells."
ellauri210.html on line 1227: The French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne’s famous tome Les Essais became celebrated in its age, even being quoted by William Shakespeare in The Tempest. At the core of the collection of writings was “De l’amitie” (“On Friendship”). La Boetie enjoyed a certain level of fame, achieved through political discourses, when he met Montaigne around 1557 and the two would spend four years together, at which time the principles of civil disobedience in matters of love became instilled in Montaigne, according to Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon’s Who’s Who in Gay and Lesbian History. But La Boetie would succumb to the plague, and Montaigne would write that he never experienced such love again.
ellauri236.html on line 169: Prohibition and the ensuing Great Depression in the US (1929–39) had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture prior to World War II. This, combined with Chase's book trade experience, convinced him that there was a big demand for gangster stories. After reading James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), and having read about the American gangster Ma Barker and her sons, and with the help of maps and a slang dictionary, he wrote No Orchids for Miss Blandish in his spare time, he claimed over a period of six weekends, though his papers suggest it took longer. The book achieved remarkable notoriety and became one of the best-selling books of the decade. It was the subject of the 1944 essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish" by George Orwell (alla). Chase and Robert Nesbitt adapted it to a stage play of the same name which ran in London's West End to good reviews. The 1948 film adaptation was widely denounced as salacious due to the film's portrayal of violence and sexuality. Robert Aldrich did a remake, The Grissom Gang, in 1971.
ellauri488.html on line 330: Amerikan immigranttiystävällisyyttä kritisoinut Thomas Bailey Aldrich was married in 1865 to Lilian Woodman of New York, and had two sons. Mark Twain apparently detested Aldrich's wife, writing in 1893: "Lord, I loathe that woman so! She is an idiot—an absolute idiot—and does not know it ... and her husband, the sincerest man that walks ... tied for life to this vacant hellion, this clothes-rack, this twaddling, blpethering, driveling blatherskite!"
ellauri488.html on line 332: Immigranttiystävällisyys on nyttemmin kadonnut, Liberty pazas pyllistää tulijoille ja Trump paiskii ulos paperittomat. Samaa suositti jo Aldrich:
ellauri488.html on line 346: Aldrich died in Boston on March 19, 1907. His last words were recorded as, "In spite of it all, I am going to sleep; put out the lights."
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