Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women's division the semi-finals are still to be played. Joan Peck will face Sally Burley and Elaine Adams is to play Issabelle Ostroff...
Scheduled for mixed doubles today are: Hatton-Peck; Sonnabend-Patterson; Levinson-Davidson...
...Villainous Squire. Falkner has a style as proper to 18th Century adventure as anybody could ask for. His description of the villain, Squire Maskew, is characteristic: "He had a thin face with a sharp nose that looked as if it would peck you, and grey eyes that could pierce a millstone if there was a guinea on the far side...
...Truman, back home from Europe, stayed in her drawing room until passengers aboard her car had left. Then she came bounding down into the President's arms and was soundly bussed. Bess Truman, who had met Margaret's ship in New York, followed and got a husbandly peck on the cheek. Beaming Harry Truman herded his womenfolk into his limousine and whisked off to Blair House...
...ballet-opera, Columbus. Written by a 50-year-old German composer named Werner Egk, it deals with Columbus' journeys to America and has some mildly metaphysical ideas built into the libretto. But Berlin was less interested in the story than in the style. Composer Egk (rhymes with peck) has his principal singers stand inconspicuously beside the orchestra while ballet dancers enact the story. The chorus is posted behind gauze curtains...