Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus there is Miss Madrigal, the newly-hired "companion" in the house on a chalk cliff, who acts very mysterious and displays a frighteningly detailed knowledge of gardening. Her quirks are perfectly accounted for in the last act, when her background is exposed and the play's pseudoallegorical meaning underlined. Laurel, the 13-year-old girl in the house, is impetuous, over-self-conscious, and neurotic in just the way one would expect from her family background. As she herself says, "My case is in Freud." Dominating the household is Laurel's grandmother, Mrs. St. Maugham, who typifies...
Deborah not only gets bamboozled; she gets pregnant. When she learns that bad Col. Bill Holden already has a wife, she takes what appears to be The Only Way Out and tries to fling herself from a cliff. Holden saves her, but so clumsily that she is nearly brained in the process. Will she recover? Yes. Will she lose the embarrassing baby? Naturally...
Rhodes Scholar and First Marshal Cliff F. Thompson will lead the Class of 1956 into Sever Quadrangle at 10:30 a.m. for the traditional Class Day exercises, the graduates' farewell to Harvard College...
Also, Illinois: James C. Beck of Kirkland and Chicago; Alan S. Gratch of Leverett and Chicago; Richard M. Rosenberg of Winthrop and Chicago; and Donald R. Spuehler of Kirkland and Elgin; Iowa: Jack J. Stiffler of Adams and Mitchellville; Kansas: Karl G. Heider of Winthrop and Lawrence and Cliff F. Thompson of Lowell and Kansas City; Maine: James F. Armstrong of Dunster and Wilton and Bruce F. Cameron of Kirkland and Bristol...
...Class Committee has elected Kenneth Rossano permanent secretary and David M. Dorsen permanent treasurer, it was announced yesterday by Cliff F. Thompson, First Marshal...