Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caralli of Leuchtenberg. During the coming year such pictures of the hovering Virgin, the angels and vacant tomb will be increasingly exhibited. When Pius XII finally proclaims the new dogma from the altar of the Cathedra, in St. Peter's, Roman Catholic Christendom will be waiting...
What scared admen themselves was the cost of television advertising. Though the youngest and least-tested medium, it was already the most expensive. Young & Rubicam's Director of Research Peter Langhoff estimated that a half-hour television show in New York cost an advertiser $60.17 for every 1,000 sets reached. Though not exactly comparable, the radio network cost is only $2.40. The villain was production expense. For example: production costs of Ford's hour of radio drama are $10,000 a week. Besides actors, ten production people are needed. Production costs of a similar Ford show...
...clipped, brusque speech of the contemporary thriller. Their immediate fascination and influence were enormous. Charles Dickens' low-life reflected their high-spots, Wilkie Collins refined their eeriness. The young J. M. Barrie struggled unsuccessfully to write penny-dreadfuls long before he took refuge in the arms of Peter Pan. Robert Louis Stevenson made the grade with his story, The Sea Cook, which was published as a juvenile thriller under the more appealing title of Treasure Island...
Christ appears in the novel as a worker of miracles, a preacher whom multitudes follow without quite knowing why. Dr. Douglas' characters, aside from Peter, are usually plain people who have heard something of the story, and who are interested, hopeful, puzzled or skeptical in their response to the message that the kingdom of God is within them...
...Hall, as the good Yankees call it, burned in 1761. Peter Faneuil couldn't help rebuild it--he had been dead for 18 years--so the town raised money with a lottery. "Faneuil Hall Lottery Tickets" sold slowly, but eventually enough was raised to rebuild the market...