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It's the annual Birling day, where MJN flies the wealthy Mr Birling to a Six Nations rugby match. Martin resents Birling's pompous ways and doesn't understand why Douglas and Arthur toady to him so much until he realizes that Birling gives huge tips to people he likes (as much as £6,000 when his team wins).
Douglas is quick-witted and forever scheming — a running joke being his cunning thefts of the prized 25-year-old Talisker single-malt whisky from Mr Birling — something of a smooth operator who knows all of the dodges available to airline officers, and enjoys taking part in all of them to greatly supplement his meagre income from MJN. He is ...
The play focuses on the prosperous upper-middle-class Birling family, [6] who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands." [5] The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a working-class woman in her mid-twenties.
“Homeward bound / I wish I was / Homeward bound / Home where my thought’s escapin’ / Home where my music’s playin’ / Home where my love lies waitin’ / Silently for me” — Paul Simon ...
Edgar John Bergen (né Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer.He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
Birling family, in An Inspector Calls; See also. Birlingham, Worcestershire This page was last edited on 24 July 2021, at 13:56 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Every Christmas movie lover should know these iconic Home Alone movie quotes. There are funny quotes from Kevin, Harry, Marv, and more!
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.