One day he was just walking down the road and was stopped by a German who asked if he would please sit for his portrait.
Worst moment The display of journalism put on by the collective press of the Commonwealth, who welcomed Usain Bolt to the Games with a series of penetrating questions about the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Scottish referendum, whether he would be willing to wear a kilt, and if he would please pose for some photos because "we are fans, not journalists".
It's a marriage, and a method, that would please Nabokov, for whom the ultimate aim of literature was a tingling up and down the spine: "It is no use reading a book at all if you do not read it with your back".
Charles Hardinge, viceroy of India, had argued in favour of Delhi as it would please both Hindus – for its traditional association with Indraprastha, and Muslims – for its connection to the Mughals.
I took a deep breath and asked if he would please, please wait for me, and said I'd be right down.
Further, Armstrong is suggesting to top shareholders that a tie-up with Yahoo would please advertisers looking for a bigger audience.
He asserts the value of immigration but then writes that it was a mistake from the point-of-view of Britain's "indigenous workers" – a category that would please the BNP – for New Labour to have "[opened] our borders" to Europeans rather than better "[manage] the numbers".
Where the famous were concerned, Beaton made sure to record not only what engaged him but also what would please customers coming back for the next volume: eighty-year-old Rose Kennedy asking his advice about false eyelashes; the Queen Mother discreetly watching other diners to see which fork she should use for lobster.
But when the suspect is a young, vulnerable, suggestible soul with learning difficulties who says whatever he thinks would please a detective, the reasons for the introduction of the rules become clear.
In his memoir, "Howling at the Moon," he tells story after story (all much the same) of his drinking, drug use, compulsive horndogging and all-around boorishness; before Sony fired him in 1990, he seems to have succeeded as much by abusing and intimidating colleagues and rivals -- a distinction he seldom recognized -- as by his instinct for what would please middlebrow record buyers of his day.
