Mrs. T. B. of Newburyport, Mass., writes: When I was a little girl staying with my grandparents, they told me we were going to visit old Captain Bottomley, who was a sailor. I had just seen Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh! so I had a very firm idea of what a sailor looked like. […]
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January 1, 2016
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children,
Sailors
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Captain Bottomley,
Gene Kelly,
scrimshaw
This is an old story I got from Jeffrey Bernard. It appeared in his Low Life column in The Spectator a few years before he finally croaked. I understand he told different versions of it over the years. The setup is that there is a young man who is the son of an affluent bookie in Piccadilly, […]
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January 1, 2014
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Intoxication
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Charing Cross,
Jeffrey Bernard,
Sevenoaks,
Simpson’s,
The Spectator
copied 2014-11-06 01:40:17 Sallie Parker’s ‘Talk’ page on Wikipedia was scrubbed but not before some of her enemies, presumably colleagues of Sieger, made certain mischievous alterations to the content and posted in a Wiki archive page. For example, in the first paragraph misspellings were introduced, some of them highly unlikely (falsly for falsely) Sieger & […]
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November 27, 2013
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Administrative
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Robert M.Sieger
A (male) friend writes, “Did I ever tell you about that time I babysat for a three-year-old girl? Well if I did, it was much worse than I ever admitted until now. I was sixteen, and a junior at Choate. It was Easter vacation and I was home in Manhasset. My parents went off to a […]
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August 8, 2013
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Babysitting
| Tagged:
frozen pizza,
Manhasset,
Oil of Olay,
Pelissa