Word: britishism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...
Room at the Top. A Tenzing among social climbers ice-picks his way to the top of a grim British industrial town...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Evans,an actor whose melodramatic technique is the living despair of the Actors' Studio, in a play, exactly shaped to the cut of his jib, about a British minesweeper captain in World...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). There is little as troublesome to a British M.P.'s career as his wife's decision to leave him, which is the problem here; with Michael Wilding, Laraine...
...Joan Fontaine as a British cloak-and-daggerotype in prewar Berlin...