Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even five-corpses are going to be too many for one feature-length film. But as soon as the cast is thinned down to working consistency, three expert craftsmen-Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Roland Young, as splendid old scoundrels-are given a chance to peer, leer and sneer it up for all they are worth. With Louis Hayward and June Duprez to add youth & beauty, the last five survivors manage to make a mildly interesting stretch run for the finish...
...Wavell doffed his uniform, was made a peer and Viceroy of India. The soldier became the proconsul. But he was unlike any other proconsul who had ever been seen in India. Hitherto it had been deemed a necessity to surround the Viceregal office with a pomp and pageantry that would dazzle even India's dazzling princes. Wavell's predecessor, Lord Linlithgow, a thrifty Scot, used to travel around India in a luxurious, cream-colored train because "Indians are impressed by these things." The new Viceroy arrived in India in a rumpled lounge suit. Instead of taking the royal...
Because the viewing surface of current television sets is not a separate screen but the glass end of a huge vacuum tube, even an 8½-by-11-in. picture represents a considerable engineering triumph. But prospects of families crowding to peer at this tiny view have long worried prospective television advertisers, discouraged prospective set owners, stumped designers. Last week in Manhattan. RCA-Victor demonstrated its postwar answer. Operating like movies on the principle of projection, with a reflecting optical system like that used in observatory telescopes and a new high voltage tube only five inches in diameter...
Died. Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life...
Hidden Actors. Chinese and American officers peer through their glasses and telescopes at the forward slopes. They can see nothing. The infantry is deep in the underbrush, bellying its way up over the rocks and ledges. The American officers prod the Chinese general. He assures them that his regiments are moving...