Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over foot of bed, go to bed, drink whiskey till you see two boots, go to sleep"), and the genial host, Jack Barrett, full of his customers' reminiscences : one, asked if he never broke his marriage vows, answered, "I ain't never exactly broke 'em, but I've sure give 'em a hell of a twist sometimes." Talk at the Anchor ranged from speculation on how partridges mated...
...impervious sincerity Actress Cornell remains untouched by this fustian, makes Elizabeth Barrett not only a very appealing heroine but a conceivable human being...
...good. By slighting its frail claims to be taken seriously, the play can be indulgently enjoyed as a gaiters-and-crinoline version of the princess, the knight and the dragon. The real Robert Browning can be assumed somewhere else while an immensely dashing impersonator (Brian Aherne) knocks Miss Barrett and her matinee following for a loop. The real and highly pathological Father Barrett can continue to interest psychiatrists while the stage article (McKay Morris) gets himself roundly hated and mentally hissed...
Part the First. So vast was the armada under Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid that it was divided into four: 1) bombardment and fire-support group, under Vice Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf (victor of Surigao Strait); 2) close cover group, under Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey; 3) San Fabian Attack Force, with troops for the northern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey; 4) Lingayen Attack Force, with troops for the southern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson...
...dream job" went to fast-rising James Barrett ("Scotty") Reston, 35, a kinetic, knowing reporter. During the recent Dumbarton Oaks conference, he was usually 24 hours ahead of other newsmen, reportedly because of news sources in the British delegation, who had known him earlier as a well-grounded London correspondent...