He might well be rechristened John Octopus, reflecting his unstoppable urge to enclasp any passing female in a sweaty tentacle. |
His father Thomas ran the ABC cinema in York, his mother Ruby, who rechristened herself Robbie, was a teacher. |
Then it went to Berlin,Saint Petersburg and Moscow, for which it was rechristened the Northern Express. |
Other leading businesses were reconstituted and rechristened, their new names often evocative of revolutionary myths, personalities, or imagery. |
It was only rechristened the Yorkshire Evening Press in 1905, the same year in which the Saturday Football Press first appeared. |
Perhaps Terence Milligan, as he was until he was rechristened during the war, does not wholly approve of Spike Milligan. |