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all that heaven allows Peggy Fenwicks script for the film with this title (US 1955) has widow Cary (Jayne Wyman) falling for her gardener, Ron (Rock Hudson), to the consternation of her class-conscious friends. Despite Wymans quoting a hefty chunk from Thoreaus Walden, no hint is given as to where the title of the film comes from. In fact, it comes from the poem Love and Life by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (164780). This was included in Quiller-Couchs Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) that great repository of quotations later to be used as film titles: Then talk not of inconstancy, / False hearts, and broken vows; / If I by miracle can be / This live-long minute true to thee, / Tis all that Heaven allows.

all the news thats fit to print This slogan was devised by Adolph S. Ochs when he bought The New York Times, and it has been used in every edition since at first on the editorial page, on 25 October 1896, and from the following February on the front page near the masthead. It became the papers war cry in its 1890s battle against formidable competition in New York City from the World, the Herald and the Journal. At worst, it sounds like a slogan for the suppression of news. However, no newspaper prints everything. It has been parodied by Howard Dietz as All the news that fits we print.

all the Presidents men Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward gave the title All the Presidents Men to their first Watergate book (1974; film US 1976). It might seem to allude to the lines from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty (first recorded in 1803): All the kings horses / And all the kings men, / Couldnt put Humpty together again. There is also a Robert Penn Warren novel (1946; filmed US 1949), All the Kings Men, based on the life of the southern demagogue Huey Kingfish Long. More directly, the Watergate book took its title from a saying of Henry Kissingers at the time of the 1970 Cambodia invasion: We are all the Presidents men and we must behave accordingly quoted

in Kalb and Kalb, Kissinger (1974).

all the world and his wife Meaning, everybody though the phrase is in decline now after the feminism of the 1970s. Christopher Anstey in The New Bath Guide (1766) has: How he welcomes at once all the world and his wife, / And how civil to folk he neer saw in his life. Jonathan Swift included it in Polite Conversation (1738): Who were the Company? Why; there was all the World and his Wife. There is an equivalent French expression: All the world and his father. A letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore (29 February 1816) has: I am at war with all the world and his wife or rather, all the world and my wife are at war with me. From F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chap. 4 (1926): On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsbys house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.

all the world loves a lover This modernish proverbial saying was used by James Agate in a speech on 17 December 1941 (reported in Ego 5, 1942). It would appear to be an adaptation of the established expression, Everybody/all the world loves a lord (current by 1869) not forgetting what the 1st Duke of Wellington apparently once said: Soldiers dearly love a lord. Almost a format saying: Stephen Leacock in Essays and Literary Studies (1916) has: All the world loves a grafter at least a genial and ingenious grafter a Robin Hood who plunders an abbot to feed a beggar; All the world loves a dancer the Fred Astaire character in the film Swing Time (US 1936).

all things bright and beautiful The popular hymn (1848) by Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander, of which this is the first line, is still notorious for its other famous lines about (THE) RICH MAN IN HIS CASTLE (THE POOR MAN AT HIS GATE. It also provided the author James Herriot with new titles for his collected volumes about life as a vet books originally called It Shouldnt Happen To a Vet, Let Sleeping Vets Lie, Vets Might Fly, etc. When these titles were coupled together in three omnibus editions especially for the US market (from 1972), Mrs Alexanders hymn was plundered and they became All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Creatures Great and Small, and All Things Wise and Wonderful. The Lord God Made Them All was given to a further original volume.

all this and Heaven too As acknowledged in Rachel Fieldss novel with the title All This and Heaven Too (1939; film US 1940), Matthew Henry, the English Bible commentator (d. 1714), ascribed the saying to his minister father in his own Life of Mr Philip Henry (1698). Compare the film title All This and World War II (US 1976) and the classic Daily Express newspaper headline on Queen Elizabeth IIs Coronation day (2 June 1953): ALL THIS AND EVEREST TOO, announcing the conquest of the worlds highest mountain by a British-led expedition.

(an) all-time low Meaning, to the lowest point on record. Probably American in origin, by the early 20th century. Could the phrase have first referred to weather temperatures? Conversely, there is also (an) all-time high, but perhaps less frequently. Brings cost of power to new all-time low Saturday Evening Post (10 June 1933); British prestige sunk to yet another all-time low is included in the parody of sportswriters clichés by David Frost and Peter Cook included in the book That Was The Week That Was (1963); A new all-time low in political scurviness, hoodlumism Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch (1970); Tory MP Phil Gallie was even prompted to predict the party could gain a seat, despite pundits claims of likely Tory losses and the partys crushing all-time low of 13% in the polls The Sunday Times (1 May 1994); What is also significant about BPs share rise to 386p last week is that it has brought the prospect of a serious assault on the all-time high of 418p much nearer the day The Observer (1 May 1994).