Many people, both excursionists and those at their destination, good-humouredly referred to the invasion as 'Bass buying the town.' "Buying A Town" Dundee Evening Post 17 June 1901. 'And the town is glad to be bought by such generous people,' said one Yarmouth businessman. 'Hundreds of them will stay for the week and are amongst our most welcome visitors.
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Trevet here quotes from Jesus' words in the Gospel of Luke (10:42), where Jesus good-humouredly defends Mary to her sister Martha. It is a somewhat daring use of the Gospel text, which was traditionally often applied the Virgin Mary.Giles Constable, The Interpretation of Martha and Mary, in Giles Constable, Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995, pp. 1–114.
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"The General Purposes Committee of the Cardiff Coroporation sat yesterday for the purpose of re-distributing the seats of the council, consequent on the re-division of the borough into ten wards. It had been anticipated that a good deal of acrimony would be shown in this delicate task. The matter, however, passed off good humouredly." The November 1890 elections were the second all-Cardiff elections in the county borough.
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Balmont and Sergey Gorodetsky with their respective wives (Andreyeva to the right), Saint Petersburg, 1907. Konstantin Balmont has been characterized variously as theatrical, pretentious, erratic and egotistical. Boris Zaitsev, ridiculing good-humouredly his best friend's vain eccentricities, remembered episodes when Balmont "could be an altogether different person: very sad and very simple." Andrey Bely spoke of Balmont as a lonely and vulnerable man, totally out of touch with the real world.
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On his arrival in London he called on Lord Palmerston, and with the utmost frankness told him that he had opposed and denounced him so frequently in public, and that he still differed so widely from his views, especially on questions of foreign policy, that he could not, without doing violence to his own sense of duty and consistency, serve under him as minister. Lord Palmerston tried good-humouredly to combat his objections, but without success.
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He good-humouredly suggested sending Hewlett Johnson, the "Red" Dean of Canterbury, to a psychiatrist when the Dean circulated Communist propaganda."Parliament", The Times, 16 July 1952, p. 4. Gomme-Duncan ran into controversy in late 1952, when he claimed that the chairman of British European Airways, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, had made a political speech to BEA workers claiming that a Labour government would increase their wages. Lord Douglas denied making any such speech and the Minister of Civil Aviation Alan Lennox-Boyd accepted his denial and issued a statement of confidence.
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The Escort piquet was ordered out; and > Lannes requested that Napoleon would join the party. He consented; his > carriage was ready, and he took along with him Bessières and the aide-de- > camp on duty. I was directed to attend the ladies. > Josephine had received a magnificent shawl from Constantinople, and she that > evening wore it for the first time. ‘Allow me to observe, Madame,’ said I, > ‘that your shawl is not thrown on with your usual elegance.’ She good > humouredly begged that I would fold it after the fashion of the Egyptian > ladies.
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It also encapsulates a fantasy tale of fairies and giants. On children's literature, Sinclair remarks in a preface, > "But above all we never forget those who good humouredly complied with the > constantly recurring petition of all young people in every generation, and > in every house, — 'Will you tell us a story?'" Sinclair's activities in Edinburgh included charitable works such as the establishment of cooking depots in old and new Edinburgh, and the maintenance of a mission station at the Water of Leith. She was instrumental in securing seats for crowded thoroughfares, and she set the example in Edinburgh of instituting drinking fountains, one of which bore her name and stood at the city's West End before it was removed as an obstruction to trams in 1926.
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On their first visit, Johnson said: “From Armidel (Armadale) we came at night to Coriatachan, a house very pleasantly situated between two brooks, with one of the highest hills of the island behind it. It is the residence of Mr. Mackinnon, by whom we were treated with very liberal hospitality, among a more numerous and elegant company than it could have been supposed easy to collect.” Corriechatachan ruins interior door on the ground level Boswell recorded that; “Dr Johnson was much pleased with his entertainment here. There were many good books in the house: Hector Boethius in Latin; Cave's Lives of the Fathers; Baker's Chronicle; Jeremy Collier's Church History; Dr Johnson's small Dictionary; Craufurd's Officers of State, and several more…” On their second visit, Boswell recorded, “This evening one of our married ladies, a lively pretty little woman, good-humouredly sat down upon Dr Johnson's knee, and, being encouraged by some of the company, put her hands round his neck, and kissed him.
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On 3 August he told Murray that he had made good progress with the Memoirs, and on 26 August that they were nearly finished, but that they were now too long and too indiscreet to be publishable as a preface: "I shall keep it among my papers – it will be a kind of Guide post in case of death – and prevent some of the lies which would otherwise be told". Murray, 29 October 1819: "I gave Moore who is gone to Rome – my Life in M.S. in 78 folio sheets brought down to 1816." On 29 October 1819 he announced that he had given the Memoirs, which took his story as far as 1816, to his friend Thomas Moore, the poet, and repeated that they were "[not] for publication during my life – but when I am cold – you may do what you please." Moore accepted this restriction, and good-humouredly looked forward to bequeathing the book to his son, "who shall astonish the latter days of the nineteenth century with it".
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