Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But more than just a bootmaker, Peter Limmer is a skiing institution, and his shop a hangout for the optimistic amateurs who look for snow in October, and the inscrutable professionals, who may do so but don't show it.
Peter's apprenticeship was interrupted by his induction into the German Army in the first World War. Sent to the Eastern front, he was captured by the Russians and spent three years in various prison camps. At one time, he was in a road gang building a railroad in the...
The lines and the acting are what raises the picture above the level of all this tripe. Except for two or three lapses into straight slapstick and a somewhat corny climax, the dialogue is consistently sharp, unexpected, and often brilliant. Michael Wilding, as lord and footman, gets just the right...
It might be that these people have nothing to say. But it's difficult to talk when you're smothered by such amateur symbolism as: "Oh Dante, I'm in hell" (Handy). Perhaps it's just a matter of getting the words out right and putting the paragraphs in order...
Widener's grandfather had bought it with the intention of giving it to him, just before the tragedy occurred. After the death of the grandfather, the Bible passed to Widener's uncle, and following the uncle's death Widener's brother and sister sent the Bible to the collection here...