On Friday, January 19, 2001 6:05 PM, Tony Barry <me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au> wrote:
To: Bruce Arnold <bruce@caslon.com.au>
Cc: <link@www.anu.edu.au>
> At 1:33 PM +1100 19/1/2001, Bruce Arnold wrote:
> > well, in the words of the immortal Mandy
> >Rice-Davis, "He would say that, wouldn't he".
>
> And some of us will remember the line from TW3 (That Was The Week That Was) -
>
> "The Minister has committed a grave Miss Keeler with Miss Demeanor".
>
> Apologies to those younger than about 45.
That quote has always been my personal favourite. You really had to be over 13
years old at the time (which would make you 50 now). It was 1963 which was one
of the most exciting years in the Swinging Sixties. It reminds me of Carnaby
Street and the start of the Beatles. Another scandal, about that time, was a
slum landlord called Peter Rachman Searching on Rachman gave me the following:
http://www.cballinger.freeserve.co.uk/chap4.htm
"There were a lot of things happening in the world at this time, or maybe I was
just starting to notice them, The Great Train Robbery, happened not too far away
from Lindfield, so we took a particular interest in that.
The Profumo scandal broke and was of special interest to us as we were reaching
the age of sexual awareness. It made Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davis into
household names, which I will never forget.
Another name which became a part of the English Language, to mean bad landlord,
was Rachman. The story of Rachman, a slum landlord taking advantage of the poor
was big news in 1963.
Martin Luther King made his famous, 'I have a dream' speech.
Henry Cooper knocked over Cassius Clay and we all knew Henry had been robbed.
Later this year John F Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas."
I always thought the quote was as you stated "He would say that, wouldn't he?"
but the following URL modifies it http://www.xrefer.com/entry/249387
Rice-Davies, Mandy (1944)
English courtesan
"He would, wouldn't he?"
At the trial of Stephen Ward, 29 June (1963), on being told that Lord Astor
claimed that her allegations, concerning himself and his house parties at
Cliveden, were untrue; in Guardian 1 July (1963) The Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations, © Oxford University Press 1999
Another quote, attributed to Mandy, which I like, was:
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
~ Mandy Rice-Davies ~
Patrick Corliss
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