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Word: pecked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom her legless, ex-millhand father (Lionel Barrymore) hates. She watches over the mill owner's stuffy, weak or shallow children (Dan Duryea, Marshall Thompson and Marsha Hunt respectively), becomes a bosom friend of his wife (Gladys Cooper), and falls in love with his one worthy son (Gregory Peck). After trying to help settle a labor dispute involving Montague Barrymore and Capulet Crisp, she withdraws to watch her lover endure a loveless marriage (Jessica Tandy). The movie, as usual, provides a happier ending than the book allowed. In spite of dead stretches and hammy streaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Wrong Type. In Ann Arbor, Mich., a Mrs. Hunt and a Mrs. Peck applied for jobs at the University of Michigan Personnel Office, were both turned down flat because they had flunked the preliminary typing test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...White Sox manager, has high hopes that Rookie-Infielder Bill Nagel, a fence-buster from Milwaukee can fill the shoes of Hal Trosky. Weak behind the plate, strong on Cubans again. Washington is minus its only .300 hitter, Stan Spence. Philadelphia's Athletics hoped ex-Milwaukee Outfielder Harold Peck would give their hot-&-cold batting order new heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pennant Prospects | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Last fortnight, with a weekend dance coming up and Easter in the offing, Elva decided on another foray. But by that time the word had been passed around the Kansas City stores to watch out for strange blondes. When Elva sauntered into Peck's department store and ordered $32.12 worth of bracelet charms "to help make a charming personality," the clerk got suspicious. When she appeared at another counter, under another name, to order a black formal and a blue street outfit, the floor manager did some quick checking. Next night, when the dance began, Elva was in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Misapplied Psychology | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Keys of the Kingdom (Gregory Peck, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rosa Stradner; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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