Richard E. Byrd the South Pole by air. However, his claim to have reached the North Pole is disputed. Byrd was born in Winchester, Virginia, the son of Esther Bolling (Flood) and Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr. He was a descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia. His ancestors include planter John Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas, William Byrd II of Westover Plantation, who established Richmond, and Robert "King" Carter, a colonial governor. He was the brother of Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a dominant figure in the Virginia Democratic Party from the 1920s until the 1960s; their father
Said the actress to the bishop Air Force c.1944-47, but may originate from the Edwardian era. The phrase is frequently used by the fictional character Simon Templar (alias "The Saint") in a long-running series of mystery books by Leslie Charteris. The phrase first appears in the inaugural Saint novel "Meet the Tiger", published in 1928. The version "as the girl said to the soldier" appears in a recorded sound test for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film "Blackmail". Kingsley Amis uses the line in his 1954 novel "Lucky Jim", where a woman offering relationship advice to Jim Dixon says "I can't show you, as the actress said to