Well, bank employees of course, who've trousered serial fortunes at the expense of taxpayers and shareholders.
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The Civil War interrupts this idyll, and the seesaw of petticoated peace and trousered violence continues its rhythmic tilting.
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Deutsche's bankers trousered roughly the same amount in annual compensation between 2011 and 2015, even as the bank's share price dived.
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On the other hand, one showgoer attributed its popularity to the Netflix series "Sex Education," which features a tartan-trousered character.
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Public School took a maxiskirted, combat-trousered, layered-up detour to Fury Road (also Furry Road, given the amount of "Revenant"-like shearling).
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Brexit has pushed the sort of red-trousered UK Independence Party (UKIP) supporters who quit the Tories under David Cameron back into the fold.
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Speaking of feathers, however, Billy Porter trumped them all (pun intended) when he was carried in on a litter born by six shirtless gold-trousered men.
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As Carillion was failing and its pension fund slipping into deficit (see article), shareholders continued to receive dividends and the firm's boss trousered a £1.5m pay package.
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Revamped pay policies should prevent a repeat of the injustice of bankers taking public money while pocketing huge pay-packets—in 2009 staff at the five biggest banks trousered $114bn.
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We are more ready to call them out on all those centuries of excess, more likely to object to those pink-trousered, pink-faced dinosaurs who still perceive us as their inferiors.
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I heard he trousered £200K for that set, which to me sounded like something you'd play at a six-year-old's birthday party if most of the kids there were high on strawberry snakes.
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Somehow Waters makes the Boy in the Boat, as her pub is called, seem more real — with its treacherous staircase, sand on the floorboards, "trousered toms" at the billiard table and "square-chinned" Mrs.
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But millions of American voters have no confidence in those same elites: the stripy-trousered experts and bigwigs who inhabit Washington's foreign policy think-tanks, or the retired generals and ambassadors who advise more conventional presidential candidates.
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You watch him and remember a YouTube video of the clown parades they used to have in the Calais refugee camp, baggy-trousered theatre students slapsticking in the French mud for an audience of laughing Syrian kids and their sad-eyed parents.
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Alternatively, things will continue to get shitter and shitter until the only clubs left are the ones in Leicester Square where you have to drink alcopops out of a bejewelled traffic cone while red trousered Jonty's talk REALLY LOUDLY about how good having money is.
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Yet if there was one figure who came to symbolize this decline, one pantomime villain into whom the great British public—or at least the media—projected all their self-loathing and contempt, it was Johnny Borrell: the white-trousered, turbo-mouthed singer of Razorlight.
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Earlier this week, for instance, we got Johnny Borrell—the white-trousered, turbo-mouthed singer of Razorlight—to narrate a definitive history of Landfill Indie music, flogging the horse that had long been dead in the name of memories, simultaneously sparking swathes of Twitter users to reminisce about their own dark indie confessions.
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Anyone who has not walked away from a nightclub calling a bouncer a "prick"—not loud enough that the bouncer will hear you and do a little tight-trousered bouncer run at you and attack you from behind and break the vertebrae in your neck, but loud enough to make you feel good, to make a point, (maybe you will even kick an errant Coke can while you say "prick" to disguise the word but not the sentiment)—anyone who has not done that has not, in my opinion, taken advantage of his whirl around the sun.
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First edition (publ. HarperCollins) Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing (2007) is the eighth novel in the Georgia Nicolson series written by Louise Rennison. It was published in July 2007. It is sold as Love is a Many Trousered Thing in the United States.
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For Caesar's grants of citizenship and senatorial rank to Gauls, including "trousered Gauls" of Transalpina, see Humanitas, virtus and becoming Roman following.
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I might have been if David Cameron had come over all righteous anger BEFORE he trousered the money to cut back his wistaria, but not afterwards.
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3 would have had twin fins and a trousered fixed tail-wheel undercarriage. Armament would have included 3 machine-guns and up to of bombs. After the PZL.3 was rejected Zalewski left PZL and refused to work on Government sponsored projects thereafter.
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Zmaj AircraftZmaj aircraft company One further development was the Spartan Cruiser III, with an aerodynamically-refined fuselage accommodating eight passengers, a modified windscreen and a trousered main undercarriage. Only three Cruiser IIIs were built (G-ACYK, G-ADEL and G-ADEM), for Spartan Air Lines.
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"A cantilever low-winged ultralight aircraft with narrow track trousered fixed undercarriage, smooth plywood skinned fuselage and an all flying tailplane for pitch control. The D-11 Mohamed generated some interest when taking part in the 1924 Rhön-Leichtflugzeug-Wettbewerb (1924 Rhön light aircraft competition). " Akaflieg Darmstadt D-12 Roemryke Berge. Designed by E. Schatzki.
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Robert Tressell (c.1908) Robert Noonan (17 April 1870 – 3 February 1911), born Robert Croker and best known by the pen name Robert Tressell, was an Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Tressell spent his entire early adult working life in South Africa. It was in Johannesburg that he was drawn into labour organisation and socialist politics.
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From these workshops writers such as David Hare, Howard Brenton and Caryl Churchill would gather material to inspire a writing phase before rehearsals began. This methodology is sometimes referred to as The Joint Stock Method. Significant productions include Hare's Fanshen, Brenton's Epsom Downs, Stephen Lowe's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Churchill's Cloud Nine. The company ceased to be active in 1989.
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Julian Gaskell is a British multi-instrumentalist, band leader, composer and singer-songwriter, who spent several years writing, recording and performing in Manchester, and is now based in Cornwall, England. He has performed and recorded solo, as well as being a founder member of a number of bands, including Loafer, Icons of Poundland, Leigh Delamere & the Gordanos and Julian Gaskell and his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
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He appeared on parade in a cocked hat rather than the conventional highland bonnet, and attempted to order the regiment to wear trousers rather than the kilt. The Duke of York quickly arranged for his transfer to a less sensitive role, and he was transferred to command the 90th Light Infantry, a Lowland—and safely trousered—regiment, on 9 August 1821.Johnston (1957), pp.
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Bacik lives with partner Alan and two daughters in the Portobello area of Dublin. Reading the Book The Women's Room by Marilyn French, at 17, greatly influenced her politics and around the same time, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell was also very influential, conveying a powerful anti-capitalist message. She was educated at Alexandra College, a fee-paying, girls' school in Miltown, Dublin.
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Maang (; autonym: ' or ') or Mo'ang (; autonym: ') is a Lolo-Burmese language of Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China and northern Vietnam. The Maang are also locally referred to as the Gāokùjiǎo Yí (高裤脚彝; "High-Trousered Yi") by other local ethnic groups (Zhou 2014:1). Lama (2012) classifies Maang within the Mondzish branch of Lolo–Burmese. Maang has many Zhuang (Central Tai) loanwords (Wang 2018).
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After the relative success of Cheranovsky's first tailless gliders, the BICh-1 and BICh-2, he continued the tailless theme with the BICh-3. The BICh-3 was built of wood with a parabolic wing having a straight trailing edge. A central nacelle, containing cockpit and engine, was faired into a large and powerful fin and rudder. The undercarriage consisted of a trousered central mono-wheel with wing-tip skids.
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It bombed. He was facing ruin as a writer. Britton escaped to Hastings, a place with literary working-class associations: the town was the setting of Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914). There, Britton worked at Netherwood, a large, run-down property bought by the actor and playwright E. C. Vernon Symonds to convert into a left-wing haven for meetings, trade union conferences, or simply as a guest house.
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A photograph exists that shows Noonan and his daughter attending an outdoor meeting. Introduction, Peter Miles xxv, Oxford Worlds Classics He began work on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. After a dispute with his employer, he left Burton & Co. He worked for Adams and Jarrett. In 1909 Noonan moved to a flat in London Road Hastings and the SDP (formerly SDF) campaigned against councillors dealings in the local gas and electricity companies.
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His health began to deteriorate and in August 1910 he travelled to Liverpool to arrange emigration to Canada. Introduction, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Oxford World's Classics, p.xlvii He wrote under the pen name Robert Tressell as he feared the socialist views expressed in the book would have him blacklisted. He chose the surname Tressell as a play on the trestle table, an important part of a painter and decorator's kit.
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In Johannesburg he was also involved with some of the leading protagonists of Irish nationalism. Having arrived back in England he worked as a painter and decorator in Hastings and wrote his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, probably between 1906 and 1910, Introduction, p.ix, Peter Miles, OUP edition, 2008 'about exploitative employment when the only safety nets are charity, workhouse and grave.' George Orwell called it a wonderful book.
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The fixed undercarriage consists of braced trousered main legs and a tail-skid. Several powerplants were tested with poor results until the ABC 8 hp, used successfully in other contemporary ultra-light aircraft, fitted with a 3:1 reduction gear, was found to be satisfactory. Accommodation for the pilot is in an open cockpit, set at mid chord, with padded edges, protected from the slipstream by a three-piece windscreen.
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In 2014, Gaskell re-convened the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists with a modified lineup - Thomas Sharpe now on banjo, piano, mandolin and vocals, Nigel Parsons on bass and Matthew Collington on drums. They released a well-received album "Carvery of Blight" in 2016 and gigged around Cornwall (as full band or as Gaskell & Sharpe duo) around this time. They appeared at Glastonbury Festival in 2014, and even played at the Kensington Palace Christmas party.
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Featuring the same lineup as the post-2014 Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Leigh Delamere & the Gordanos have gigged around the UK since 2016 as "an upright-piano mangling barrelhouse banjo homage to the greats of rhythm’n’blues, garage rock, boogie woogie and ragtime in an old-timey skiffle party style". They appeared at the Great Estate, Boardmasters and Masked Ball festivals in Cornwall, and ran a 1930's speakeasy stage "The Blind Pig" at these.
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Jones was born in Liverpool and grew up in Fazakerley. An only child, her father, Fred Hamilton, was a production manager for a pharmaceutical company, and was a friend of Labour MP Eric Heffer. Heffer gave her a copy of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists when she was young, which inspired her to become an active socialist. She attended Wirral College of Art and Preston College, and joined the Labour Party at the age of 17.
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In 1979 a disused Methodist chapel, seating 200, was identified in Mile End Road, near Stepney Green. This opened in 1979, with a production of Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists that took advantage of the dilapidated state of the building by redecorating it as a part of the performance. This theatre had fixed seating around a central performance area. In 1979 Edward Bond's The Worlds had its London première at the Half Moon.
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Kathleen mentioned her father's novel in the presence of a visitor to the house where she worked, Introduction, p. x . Peter Miles, Oxford World Classics, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, writer Jessie Pope, who recommended it to her publisher, Grant Richards. In April 1914, the publisher bought the rights to the book for £25, and it appeared in Britain, Canada and the United States later that year, in the Soviet Union in 1920, and in Germany in 1925.
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After having learnt Swedish, he directed several plays in civic theatres in Sweden, many of them translated or adapted by his wife. Among others: The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, Volpone by Ben Jonson, The Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (the version by Stephen Lowe) and Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill. At the Gate Theatre London he directed the British premieres of some rarely performed Strindberg plays, translated from the Swedish by his wife Eivor.
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Chelvanayakam has been described as a father figure to Ceylon's Tamils, to whom he was known as "Thanthai Chelva" (Father Chelva). Ceylon Workers' Congress leader S. Thondaman said of him, "Chelvanayakam was the Tamil people; and the Tamil people were Chelvanayakam". He was noted for his integrity and respected by both allies and opponents. Known as the "Trousered Gandhi" by Tamils, Chelvanayakam was compared with Gandhi for his commitment to using non-violent methods to achieve his political goals.
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Sixpence in her Shoe relates to the Leeds Children's Holiday Camp Association based at Silverdale, Lancashire, about which she has also written a factual history, Now I am a Swimmer (the title being a quote from a child's letter home). Sisters of Fortune is the tale of two girls of different financial backgrounds growing up in Leeds, and was republished as Halfpenny Dreams. Her plays include Tressell, about Robert Tressell, author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
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Around this time he was also a member of the General Council of the International Federation of Trade Unions. Hicks wrote the foreword for the 1927 edition of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. He was present at the 1931 Jubilee meeting of the Labour-affiliated SDF at Bristol where he made the main speech (later published as a pamphlet Poverty from Plenty). In a 1931 by-election, Hicks was elected Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Woolwich East, representing that constituency until 1950.
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The opening season included The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo and The Mysteries - Yiimimangaliso. Isango remained company in residence for theatre's first new season, premiering two new productions, Aesop's Fables and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Izigwili Ezidlakazelayo.David Smith, "All black South African acting company evicted from theatre", The Guardian, 23 November 2010. In 2012, the company premiered two new productions, La Bohème - Abanxaxhi, in a unique partnership with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Venus and Adonis - UVenus e Adonis.
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The M.3 Falcon was a clean, single engined low-wing monoplane with trousered main undercarriage and fixed tail-wheel, designed in 1934. It was structurally similar to the earlier Miles M.2F Hawk Major family, but had side-by-side seating for two behind the pilot in a glazed cockpit. It was powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major piston engine. The prototype, G-ACTM, built by Philips and Powis first flew at Woodley Aerodrome on 12 October 1934.
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A raised roof line continued from the engine housing forward, providing space above the wing for three windows on each side for the observer and a more conventional, framed cockpit above and forward of the wing. The lower fuselage was modified by a fixed, tricycle undercarriage with closely spaced, trousered main legs, rubber-sprung mainwheels with low pressure tyres, a shrouded, steerable nosewheel and a little tailwheel. As a result the empty weight increased by compared with the glider. The wing remained unchanged.
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John Logie Baird lived in Hastings in the 1920s where he carried out experiments that led to the transmission of the first television image. Robert Tressell wrote The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists in Hastings between 1906 and 1910. Many notable figures were born, raised, or lived in Hastings, including computer scientist Alan Turing, poet Fiona Pitt-Kethley, actress Gwen Watford, comedian Jo Brand and singer Suggs. Gareth Barry, who holds the record number of appearances in the Premier League, was born in Hastings.
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A two-man adaptation by Townsend Productions of his play The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists toured throughout the country in 2011 to 2013 and again in 2015. Many of his plays were first produced in his home-town at Nottingham Playhouse, at Lakeside Arts Centre or by Lowe’s own company, Meeting Ground Theatre Company. Lowe moved back to Nottingham in 1985 to start Meeting Ground, with a group including his wife Tanya Myers. In February 2017, a revival of Touched was staged at Nottingham Playhouse, starring Vicky McClure.
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The Victorian education minister and future premier, Lindsay Thompson, was driven to the scene by Assistant Commissioner W. D. (Bill) Crowley masquerading as the minister's driver and armed with a trousered derringer pistol. Future Chief Commissioner S. I. (Mick) Miller was concealed under a blanket in the rear of the car with a high-powered rifle. Thompson waited to personally deliver the ransom, but it was never collected. In the early hours of the next morning, the kidnappers told Gibbs they were going to collect the ransom and left her and the pupils.
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In the late 1890s the organisation represented 'only the building trades, called together by Mr Noonan of Mssrs Herbert Evans and co'. It was in Johannesburg that he was drawn into socialist politics. He was elected to the committee of the newly formed International Independent Labour Party. Elected alongside Noonan was James Thompson Bain and it is possible that through Bain, Noonan was introduced to the socialist ideas of Robert Blatchford, and the political writings of William Morris, both thinkers that influenced the writing found in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
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He seems not to have joined a trade union. In 1905 he was fined for obstructing the police when a policeman disrupted his nephew Arthur from setting off fireworks, and around this time also he produced drawings illustrating The Evolution of the Airship, and offered a model airship of his own design to the War Office, but they rejected it.Harker, Dave: TUC History Online – Robert Tressel Introduction, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Oxford World's Classics, p.xlvii In 1906 he became a founder member of the Hastings branch of the Social Democratic Federation.
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The Dolphin was designed as a modernised version of the de Havilland Dragon Rapide, incorporating ideas from the company's DH 86A and de Havilland Dragonfly but using new main assembly designs. It had a DH 86A-style nose to accommodate two crew side by side and increased span wings of unequal span, Dragonfly-like. It first appeared with the trousered undercarriage of these earlier biplane transports, but a retractable landing gear, rather like that of the DH.88 Comet was fitted before flight. Onboard air-stairs were one of the passenger access novelties.
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In his late 20s, Tomlinson was attracted to right-wing politics and, by his own account, was a member of the National Front for a period after Enoch Powell's April 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech. In the early 1970s however, Tomlinson's political views shifted staunchly to the left after reading the book The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. In 1972 he joined the flying pickets in a building workers' dispute in Shrewsbury. Following allegations of violence during this protest, in 1973 Tomlinson was charged with "conspiracy to intimidate" as one of the Shrewsbury Two.
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Edward J. Pay (died 1931), often known as Teddy Pay, was a British labour movement activist, who was known for his interest in rural affairs. Pay joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) in about 1898,Labour Party, Report of the Annual Conference (1932), p.74 at which time he was based in Hastings. However, opposition to his views led him to leave the town and move to Tunbridge Wells,Bill Coxall and Clive Griggs, "The critical reception of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in 1914", Labour History Review, vol.
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For its first flight, made in early 1934, the SAM-6 had a long, non-retracting central ski rather than a wheel, and tail ski rather than a skid, both mounted on vertical shock- absorbing struts. The trials were reasonably successful and the main ski was replaced by a wheel in a trouser fairing. No reports from tests with this landing gear are known but by late 1934 the SAM-6 had been modified into the more conventional SAM-6bis, which had two fixed, trousered mainwheels. It also had a second, tandem seat in an enclosed, instrumented cockpit.
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Noonan was born in 37 Wexford Street, Dublin, Ireland, the illegitimate son of Samuel Croker, a former Inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who by the time of the birth was a retired Resident Magistrate. Jonathan Hyslop, 'A Ragged Trousered Philanthropist in South Africa', History Workshop Journal, Volume 51, Issue 1 He was baptised and raised a Roman Catholic by his mother Mary Noonan. His father, who wasn't Catholic, had his own family, but attempted to provide for Robert until his death in 1875.Irish Genealogy ieHarker, Dave: TUC History Online – Robert Tressell By 1875 Noonan was living in London.
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After relocating to Cornwall, Gaskell recorded and released the 17-track set, Technology Will Make Us Better, through Top of the Hill recordings in 2005. The record received favourable reviews among a number of publications such as Manchester Music and 247 Magazine. In 2006 Thomas Sharpe (also of Zapoppin') began playing bass for Gaskell as one of his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists along with Kester Jones. The band (named after the novel by Robert Tressell) would later come to include Dan Pye on Guitar and Rory Pugh on drums as well as a number of other guest players.
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Extensive television appearances include Minder, Bergerac, The Bill, Foyle's War, Martin Chuzzlewit, Silent Witness, New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, Between the Lines, Little Dorrit, The History Man, Lark Rise to Candleford, Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. and as Dave Morris in McLibel!. He appeared in two of the Sharpe television films: Sharpe's Gold (1995) and Sharpe's Challenge (2006). Film appearances include Julian Temple's Absolute Beginners, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream and Made in Dagenham. Theatre credits include Kid in Strawberry Fields (1977) at Royal National Theatre, Crass in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Saved at Royal Court Theatre and Class Enemy.
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Two aspects of the labour movement of Johannesburg at this time - the movement towards the policies of racial segregation in industry, and support of the Transvaal government, mean that it is possible that Noonan at least acquiesced in these politics. Jonathan Hyslop, History Workshop Journal, Spring 2001 In 1897 he appeared in the Supreme Court, Cape Town, a plaintiff in a divorce case. The court granted the divorce and awarded Robert custody of Kathleen. It has been suggested that the failure of his marriage may have provided a sub plot in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists that concerns Ruth Easton, who has a child by Alf Slyme.
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During the 1890s Bain was politically active in a range of ways, including spying for the Kruger government in the Transvaal and Natal. He became editor of the Johannesburg Witness in 1899 and became a leading figure in Johannesburg Trades Council (founded October 1893). With Tom Mathews (Cornish-born ex-US mining union activist in Butte, Montana) and Johannesburg Trades Council's secretary Robert Noonan (aka Robert Tressell, author in 1914 of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists) he founded the International Independent Labour Party. When the Second Boer War broke out between the ZAR and Britain in October 1899, Bain joined the Transvaal forces and fought for his adopted country.
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The engine drove a U-2 Propeller, with which the flight tests began in 1936. The factory testing was completed by early when the aircraft was flown to Moscow for testing at the NII GVF(Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - scientific test institute for civil air fleet), unfortunately the aircraft suffered a forced landing on arrival at the NII GVF airfield and further work was abandoned. A modified version with a large enclosed cabin, trousered main undercarriage, anti nose-over skid and Townend ring cowling, was mooted in a contemporary drawing, but there is no evidence that this version was built, modified, or flown.
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under the pen name Robert Tressell. Published after Tressell's death from tuberculosis in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1911, the novel follows a house painter's efforts to find work in the fictional English town of Mugsborough (based on the coastal town of Hastings) to stave off the workhouse for himself, his wife and his son. The original title page, drawn by Tressell, carried the subtitle: "Being the story of twelve months in Hell, told by one of the damned, and written down by Robert Tressell." Grant Richards Ltd.
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" The series was panned by most critics, and Mantle sarcastically remarked that "I've seen murderers and rapists get a better press than we did." In 1998, he appeared in Stephen Daldry's production of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at the Liverpool Playhouse and the Theatre Royal Stratford East theatres. In 1998-9 he portrayed Simon Horton, younger brother of David Horton in the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley for two episodes; Stevyn Colgan said that his imposing height was "used to great comic effect" in this role when he became the love interest of 5' 0" (1.52 m) tall Reverend Geraldine Granger (Dawn French). From March 1999, Mantle played Victor in Jan Sargent's production of The Price at the Bristol Old Vic.
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There were more than twenty tribes of Aquitani, but they were small and lacking in repute; the majority of the tribes lived along the ocean, while the others reached up into the interior and to the summits of the Cemmenus Mountains, as far as the Tectosages. The name Gallia Comata was often used to designate the three provinces of Farther Gaul, viz. Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Belgica, and Aquitania, literally meaning "long-haired Gaul", as opposed to Gallia Bracata "trousered Gaul", a term derived from bracae ("breeches", the native costume of the northern "barbarians") for Gallia Narbonensis. Most of the Atlantic coast of the Aquitani was sandy and thin-soiled; it grew millet, but was unproductive with respect to other products.
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By 1893 Blatchford was the leader of his own clique within the newly founded national Independent Labour Party, the Clarionettes, whose extraordinary dynamism was expressed in its numerous choral societies, Clarion cycling clubs, Socialist Scouts, and glee clubs. Central to the Clarion movement were the Clarion cycling clubs, whose members, frequently accompanied by the "Clarion Van", travelled the country distributing socialist literature and holding mass meetings. Robert Tressell's socialist novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists contains a detailed account based on a meeting organised by the Clarion scouts. The Clarion movement also supported many industrial disputes at this time, including the three-year lockout of the slateworkers of the Penrhyn slate quarry in North Wales. The Clarion collected £1,500 to support the people of Bethesda.
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Bernard Rothman better known as Benny Rothman (1 June 1911 – 23 January 2002) was a UK political activist, most famous for his leading role in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932. Born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, into a Jewish family from Romania, Rothman's poor family circumstances dictated that he start work at the earliest opportunity rather than take full advantage of a scholarship that he had won. Working as an errand boy in the motor trade, he studied geography and economics in his spare time while his Aunt Ettie introduced him to The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the works of Upton Sinclair. Increasingly committed to the causes of socialism and communism, Rothman lost his job after getting into some trouble with the law while selling copies of the Daily Worker.
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The Ya-21 was derived from the Yakovlev UT-1, in similar fashion to the Yakovlev AIR-18, by replacing the Shvetsov M-11 radial with an imported Renault 6Q-01 inverted 6-cylinder in- line engine. The rear cockpit was enclosed with an aft-sliding canopy, a fixed trousered and spatted undercarriage with spring steel tail-skid was fitted, as well as split flaps and a fixed, forward firing, synchronised 7.62mm ShKAS machine gun in the forward fuselage decking. Plans for re-engining the Ya-25 with a Kossov MG-31F 9-cylinder radial engine were cancelled, due to changing priorities of the customer. The sole Ya-21 was converted into the No.25 prototype by substituting the imported Renault with a Voronezh MV-6 (Renault Bengali copy).
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Based on his own experiences of poverty, exploitation, and his terror that he and his daughter, Kathleen—whom he was raising alone—would be consigned to the workhouse if he fell ill, Noonan embarked on a detailed and scathing analysis of the relationship between working-class people and their employers. The "philanthropists" of the title are the workers who, in Tressell's view, acquiesce in their own exploitation in the interests of their bosses. The novel is set in the fictional town of Mugsborough, based on the southern English coastal town of Hastings, where Noonan lived, although its geographical location as described in the book is well away from the actual town of Hastings. Noonan completed The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists in 1910, but the 1,600-page hand-written manuscript was rejected by the three publishing houses to which it was submitted.
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Television roles included the Archbishop of Rheims in Saint Joan for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951), Lord Cantlemere in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (1951), Soames the butler in The Great Detective (1953), Louis XVIII in The Lost King (1958), Aylmer - Member of Drug Cartel in H. G. Wells' Invisible Man (1958), The Third Man (1959), Mr. Petheridge in Dixon of Dock Green (1962), Maigret (1962), Demaris in Ghost Squad (1964), Major Culcao in "The Third Bullet" episode of Crane (1964), Dr. Grimesby Roylott in Sherlock Holmes (1964), Philip Clewes in an episode of The Wednesday Play (1965), Abram Gobseck in The Rise and Rise of Cesar Birotteau (1965), Colonel Krauss in The Good Soldier Schweik, St. Laurent in The Troubleshooters (1966), Alderman Adam Sweater in The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1967), an episode of Armchair Theatre (1968), and Richard Warde in The Shadow of the Tower (1972).
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Her first acting role was as a young boy in a production of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at the Half Moon Theatre (in 2016 she became a patron of the theatre). During the 1980s, she was also involved in a play called Passionaria at the Newcastle Playhouse, starring Denise Black and Kate McKenzie, and they later formed the jazz group Denise Black and the Kray Sisters.The Northern Echo 16 June 2005 Her work in comedy began as a result of starring in a Donmar Warehouse play called Songs For Stray Cats and hearing the audience invited to supply lines and ideas for improvisers appearing in after-show cabaret. In 1994–1996 Lawrence played Katharine in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London, for which she received a Dame Peggy Ashcroft award for Best Actress.
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John A. Hargreaves summarises Jenkinson's appearance thus: > A tall, bespectacled figure with a ruddy complexion and a steadfast and > composed look in his penetrating eyes, he exhibited a Spartan lifestyle, > wearing for many years an old overcoat purchased for a shilling in a church > jumble sale. His most cherished possessions were his books and his bicycle, > and he was most characteristically remembered, soft-collared and flannel- > trousered, hurtling through the streets of Leeds, with his coat-tails > flapping in the wind ... Neither Cambridge nor Oxford, nor indeed Yorkshire, > made the slightest impression on his native Cockney accent and his speech > was characterized by its high-pitched rapid delivery. A doughty debater, he > displayed immense physical and mental energy, his natural modesty giving way > in later years to a greater assertiveness, an intolerance of opposition, and > an occasional brusqueness. Jenkinson did not wish, as a clergyman, to accentuate his differences from the laity, and avoided wearing a clerical collar.
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Bolkhovitinov became the head of the VVIA design group at the VVA Zhukovsky ( - VVS academy Zhukovsky ) tasked with the design of a replacement for the Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber. The resulting DB-A was advanced for its day, with stressed skin aluminium alloy construction throughout with clean lines, neatly cowled engines and trousered main undercarriage legs, with fully retracting main-wheels and tail-wheel. The split flaps, undercarriage, nose turret and bomb-bay doors were all operated by a pneumatic system recharged by engine-driven compressors. Flight trials began on 2 May 1935 at Khodinka piloted by N.G. Kastanyev and Ya.N. Moseyev, factory tests were completed by April and NII testing was carried out in May and June 1935. The excellent performance demonstrated included, sustained flight at an altitude of 2,500 m (8,202 ft) with two engines shut down, and 4,500 km range. A decision was made to fly nonstop from Moscow to the US, and the DB-A was modified to fly, at an overload weight of 34,700 kg (76,500 lb), carry enough fuel to fly 8,440 km (5,244 miles).
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Stephen Lowe (born December 1947) is an English playwright and director. Lowe's plays have dealt with subjects ranging from the takeover of Tibet by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in 1959 (Tibetan Inroads) to a dying DH Lawrence trying find a publisher for Lady Chatterley (Empty Bed Blues); from Donald McGill postcards (Cards and Kisses on the Bottom) to Dr John Dee (The Alchemical Wedding). His best known plays are Touched, about a group of working-class women in Nottingham at the end of the second world war; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, about a group of house-painters in 1906 (adapted from the novel by Robert Tressell); and Old Big ‘Ead in the Spirit of the Man, in which football hero Brian Clough comes back from the dead to inspire a playwright working on his latest play. He has had plays produced by the Royal Court, Royal Shakespeare Company, Riverside Studios, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Hampstead Theatre, Joint Stock; and at regional theatres across the country including Scarborough Theatre in the Round, Sheffield Crucible, Liverpool Playhouse, Derby Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Salisbury Playhouse and Plymouth Theatre Royal.
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