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Marilyn Foreman (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014), better known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.
While giving evidence at the trial of Stephen Ward, charged with living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, Rice-Davies (18 years old at that time) made the remark for which she is now best remembered: when the defence counsel, James Burge, pointed out that Lord Astor denied an affair or having even met her, she ...
Mandy Rice-Davies Applies, a British political aphorism; Men's Roller Derby Association, the governing body of men's roller derby; Mitsubishi Motors R&D of America (MRDA), a subdivision of Mitsubishi Motors North America; Mongko Region Defence Army, an insurgent group in Mongko, Shan State, Myanmar
"Well he would, wouldn't he?", [n 1] occasionally referenced as Mandy Rice-Davies Applies (shortened to MRDA), is a British political phrase and aphorism that is commonly used as a retort to a self-interested denial. The Welsh model Mandy Rice-Davies used the phrase while giving evidence during the 1963 trial of the English osteopath Stephen Ward.
The Christine Keeler Story (1963) as Mandy Rice-Davies; I maniaci (1964) as Rosetta; The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964) as Frida; What Ever Happened to Baby Toto (1964) as Inga; I due evasi di Sing Sing (1964) as Ruth Allenby; I ragazzi dell'hully-gully (1964) The Dolls (1965) as Armenia (segment: La telefonata)
"Well he would, wouldn't he?" is an aphorism that is commonly used as a retort to a self-interested denial. It was said by the model Mandy Rice-Davies (pictured) while giving evidence at the 1963 trial of Stephen Ward, who had been accused of living off money paid to Rice-Davies and her friend Christine Keeler for sex: part of the larger Profumo affair.
The club was first opened in 1913, on the site of the old Blanchards restaurant at 1-7 Bleak Street, [2] by an American, Jack Mays, and an Englishman, Ernest A. Cordell. [3]
The forerunners to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era by bootleggers to evade revenue agents and other law enforcement. [7]Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups.