Word: pascale
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...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...
...been enjoyed-and most of the fine films have been made-by a small group of artists, "The Independents." There are four sets of Independents: The Archers, the Cineguild, Individual Productions, and Wessex Productions. Two Cities Films, Ltd. and occasional guest artists such as Laurence Olivier, Gabriel Pascal or Carol Reed (Odd Man Out) also do fine work...
...theology be theology! We have made everything of it except just that. Theology is the coherent, systematic study of God and divine things. . . . Somehow modern theology will have to find the road back to the God of the Scriptures, the God of whom Pascal in his spiritual autobiography is reported to have exclaimed in the night of his conversion: 'God! the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! The God of Jesus Christ! Not the God of the philosophers and the scholars...
...wrote a bit for her into Contraband. But the bit wound up on the cutting-room floor. So Deborah continued to live at a Y.W.C.A. on 35 shillings ($7) a week and spent most of her waking hours being turned out of producers' offices. By the time Gabriel Pascal saw her, plain living and plenty of walking had etherealized the dumpling to that lithe spirit which Pascal singled...
...scarcely had Metro's massive procurement machinery begun to move than it stalled. L.B. was ready & willing; Miss Kerr was more than ready & willing. But Pascal had so thoroughly snarled up his half of the contract that it seemed impossible to untangle. The chief difficulty was that Pascal had guaranteed Deborah a certain sum after British taxes. To Hollywood the price seemed prohibitive. Poor Deborah languished as helplessly as the rich man with the needle's-eye view of heaven. Then, suddenly, she became more like a bone at the vortex of a dogfight. MGM, Sam Goldwyn, Loew...