Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
61/100
The Sydney Morning Herald's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Peter B Buckley of New Ulm, Minnesota, USA, lords it over us with this celebrity encounter (C8):
asserted
Buckley → lord → encounter
“In 1961, my father and I were staying at the Savoy in London when there was a knock on the door.
asserted
father → stay → door
It was the hotel manager who informed him that our bath had overflowed and flooded the suite below.
asserted
bath → inform → suite
After finding out the room where the affected people had been moved to, we went down to apologise and present a bottle of champagne as a peace offering, as it were.
asserted
it → find → offering
My father knocked on the door, and as it opened, he said, ‘Why, hello Larry.’
asserted
he → knock → door
It was then that I learnt they had met back in 1941, ironically at the Savoy, during World War II.
asserted
they → learn → II
Not to be outdone, Lance Dover of Pretty Beach was browsing one lunchtime in the tiny RM Williams city store.
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Dover → outdo → store
“I thought I was the only customer, until the change room door opened, and I came face to face with Lauren Bacall.
asserted
I → think → Bacall
I was, unusually, left speechless as we just nodded to each other.
asserted
we → leave → other
She was appearing in Sweet Bird of Youth at the time.
asserted
She → appear → time
The Rolls-Royce outside was nice looking too.”
asserted
Royce → look → ?
“Sorry Tom Meakin, no offence meant, but to your mother’s claim that she was playing hide and seek with Profumo, I can only repeat the famous Mandy Rice-Davies reply: ‘Well she would say that, wouldn’t she?’”
uncertain
she → mean → that
“If Pauline Hanson would let the back of her hair grow a bit, we would have the first sighting of a red mullet in Canberra,” notes John Elder of Annerley (Qld).
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Elder → let → Annerley
“Until then we’ll have to put up with the plain old red snapper.”
asserted
we → have → snapper
Jack Dikian of Mosman observes that “Trump declared the US would officially refer to AI as ‘Super Intelligence’.
asserted
US → observe → Intelligence
I’m surprised he didn’t land on ‘American Intelligence’.”
asserted
he → ’m → Intelligence
“A wonderful French (C8) teacher, Madame Kuhler, introduced us to French nursery rhymes, a Christmas carol Quittez Pasteurs and, of course, La Marseillaise in the 1950s,” recalls Lilian Andrew of Mosman.
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Andrew → introduce → Mosman
“She was keen on pronunciation and found our Oldham accents perfect for the French ‘O’.
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accents → find → O
Our homework? Repeating ‘Don’t let your cocoa go cold’.”
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cocoa → repeat → ?
Fellow Mosmanite, Margaret Lorang was once standing on a balcony “and was able to surprise someone who understood, by using, appropriately, my one sentence in Hebrew: ‘You and I are on the roof’.
asserted
You → stand → roof
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