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Arthur

Arthur is a male given name.

Arthur

a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

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President Arthur wanted to reduce the tariffs.
Mordred betrayed King Arthur.
It's been so hectic around here lately I don't know whether I'm Arthur or Martha.
Arthur is playing the bad guy.
Arthur was in his early fifties.
Uther Pendragon was the father of King Arthur.
Lancelot fell in love with King Arthur's wife Guinevere.

Movie subtitles

No, Arthur.
Arthur Broadly.
Is it Declan or this Arthur Broadly?
See, poor old Arthur had no living next of kin, and I knew him well.
Oh yes, that's Arthur.
Arthur Gilbert.
Arthur Nunheim, honorary member.
I don't want him to fire Arthur.
Sure, we don't want to fire Arthur.
He was the Iast baby my father delivered, Arthur was.
Arthur wants to quit.
Arthur?
Who's Arthur?
What do I care about Arthur?
The Invisible Man was the last of five pictures Arthur Edeson photographed with James Whale.
Arthur Edeson went way back as a cinematographer, way back to 1914.
Her second husband, screenwriter Arthur Sheekman, convinced her to stop trying.
Arthur was the last baby my father delivered.
Feldwebel Arthur stuffs himself with cabbage every day.
What happened, Mr Arthur?
Well, Arthur, found anything?
Sir Arthur Oonan Doyle?
I consulted with the head of the Department of Records, Mr Arthur Kim.
Just think, Arthur, within an hour, this store will be ours.
You can tell me later, Arthur.
Calling Dr. Arthur.
Sir Arthur Oonan Doyle? Yes.
Hello Arthur!
He's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom.
Arthur Geiger.
Doctor, this money came from the safe of Arthur Niles.
She must have it, Arthur.
Arthur told me about it.
Good afternoon, Arthur.
Your guest, Arthur?
Well, Arthur, are we going to start?

News and current affairs

The Arthur Anderson and Enron scandals in America have focused attention on the problems of accounting in private businesses.
The Arthur Anderson, Enron, and WorldCom scandals didn't emerge out of thin air, but had their origins in the mid-1990s, when the US Treasury actually intervened to stop attempts by the supposedly independent accounting standards board to improve matters.
By late spring, those expectations had disintegrated alongside the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Arthur Andersen.
BERKELEY - On the back left corner of my desk right now are three recent books: Arthur Brooks' The Battle, Charles Murray's Coming Apart, and Nicholas Eberstadt's A Nation of Takers.
Reagan's failure to reappoint Volcker and Jimmy Carter's failure to reappoint Arthur Burns are the main exceptions.
Arthur Levitt, the former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, recognized the conflict: as many within the auditing firms focus on their own short-term interests, the integrity of the audits could be compromised.
Liberal cycles, the historian Arthur Schlesinger thought, succumb to the corruption of power, conservative cycles to the corruption of money.
Arthur Koestler was right when he said that there is nationalism, and there is football nationalism - and that the latter is the more deeply felt.
We have seen Enron-style fraud from corporate management, Arthur Anderson-style smoke and mirrors from accountants, and now Putnam Funds-style market-timing irregularities from mutual funds.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has made it a lot more difficult to repeat the kinds of things that Enron and Arthur Anderson did.
Russia coveted Port Arthur, and the powers jointly brought pressure on Japan to withdraw from the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
With a diplomatic resolution ruled out, Japan launched a preemptive strike that annihilated the Russian Fleet in Port Arthur and Chemulpo, Korea.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, which led the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew the battle flag flown by the Mikasa, Admiral Togo's ship when he attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.
Its fraudulent accounts were certified by Arthur Andersen.
When contemporary economists think of economic dualism, they think first and foremost of the Nobel laureate Sir W. Arthur Lewis.
The turn-of-the-century German school, led by Arthur Spiethoff and Gustav Cassel, viewed the pre-WWI booms in the same non-monetary way.
When I think of Jimmy Carter's energy policy, Arthur Scargill at the head of the British mineworkers' union, and Mao's Cultural Revolution, I have a hard time disagreeing with Friedman about the world in the mid-1970's.
More than 50 years ago, visionaries like the British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and the German (and American) rocket engineer Wernher von Braun laid out a series of steps for the journey into space.

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