Word: pelle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when he signed on in 1928 as financial boss of his father-in-law's John Bean Manufacturing Co., a small producer of agricultural spray pumps and prune-drying equipment. Almost immediately, he launched the company-which in 1929 was rechristened Food Machinery Corp.* on a course of pell-mell expansion, which he is fond of calling "aggressive diversification.'' One after another. Davies added new lines of farm machinery, food processing and packaging equipment and agricultural chemicals. In 1948, branching out still farther, he acquired New York's Westvaco Chemical Corp.. which with other acquisitions...
...plot complications. The story is that Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), a slave, will be granted his freedom if he can secure as his master's bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males who are panting after dumb blonde virgins. Sharing the frantic antics are eunuchs, panderers, aging lechers, vainglorious soldiers, and defrocked vestals. For most of them, the stage-right bawdyhouse is home...
...humid midsummer night in Washington. The city slept as best it could. On Capitol Hill, the great dome glowed above an empty plaza. But in its nearly empty chamber, the U.S. Senate was still in session-of a sort. Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell, acting as presiding officer, nodded in the chair; Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey and Republican Whip Tom Kuchel slumped at their desks, staring trancelike at nothing. And from his back-row desk, Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire talked and talked and talked, pausing only to sip butterscotch-flavored Metrecal...
Died. Herbert Claiborne Pell, 77, pince-nezed bibliophile descendant of Louisiana's first state Governor and father of Rhode Island's Junior Senator Claiborne Pell, a onetime Congressman himself (1919-21) and New York State Democratic Committee chairman (1921-26), who was tapped by his Harvard contemporary, Franklin Roosevelt, for two diplomatic posts (minister to Portugal, then Hungary) and as U.S. member of the U.N. Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; on a Munich street, while escorting his grandson on a grand tour. In 1945, after urging the indictment of the entire Nazi Gestapo, Pell proved more...
Please Turn Over (Peter Rogers; Columbia) carries on the pell-mell misadventures of the producer-director team and some of the players responsible for the success of the British Carry On farces (Carry On Nurse, Doctor, etc.). There was really no need to change the title, unless the producers wanted to capitalize on its suggestiveness; this one could just as well have been called Carry On Suburbia. A teen-age girl, charmingly played by Julia Lockwood (daughter of Actress Margaret), writes a scandalous bestseller called Naked Revolt, and the whole town plays the guessing game of matching members...