E.R.Braithwaite died (12/12/2016)

Guyanese-British-American writer (born 1912) [!]
Author of _To Sir with Love_ (1959) (movie 1967).
"I was playing in the backyard with some of my neighbour's children....We were playing marbles. And I became accustomed to hearing them using these richly descriptive words. I remember sitting at the dinner table with my mother and it popped out. I forgot to control my language - this word popped out. My mother took me by the hand into the bathroom, reached into the cabinet, took out a bottle which contained a black mixture called cascara....It is the essence of bitterness. If you take a little cascara into the mouth, and you think you'll use some water to lessen the effect, it makes it worse. And my mother said, 'Any time I hear you using words like that, this bottle will be waiting for you!'"