Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN TIME'S Art Researcher Martha Peter Welch began to check the story of the Mount Vernon Museum's miniature of Martha Custis Washington (see ART), supposedly a 1772 work of Charles Willson Peale, she discovered Yale University had another miniature, also thought to be the 1772 Peale portrait. Since both were acquired from direct descendants of the nation's first First Lady, the museum and university quietly began to reconcile their claims...
...Britain's emotional and economic ties with the Commonwealth might well have kept Britain on the sidelines but for the coincidence that, just as the Common Market was being hammered into shape, two "good Europeans" took over the crucial jobs in Britain-Macmillan as Prime Minister and Peter Thorneycroft as his .Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Make no doubt of it, we are behind the Free Trade Area," said Thorneycroft...
Creation of the Free Trade Area, declared Peter Thorneycroft last week, "will make us a better ally." The U.S. State Department, though recognizing that some U.S. industry may at first suffer, is all for the two schemes-convinced that all Europe will eventually gain by them, and therefore the U.S. too will benefit...
...other key appointment was the promotion of Peter Thorneycroft, 47, to Macmillan's old job as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thorneycroft comes from a family of Staffordshire ironmasters which made its fortune in the Industrial Revolution. His second wife is an Italian countess who was once fashion editor of the British Vogue. As President of the Board of Trade, Thorneycroft earned a reputation for courage and clarity, for economic liberalism and opposition to monopolies. He, like Macmillan, is eager for closer economic ties to Europe...
...performances in this movie have become as classic as the story and just as susceptible to imitation--often by the same people. The late Sidney Greenstreet played Caspar Gutman ever after, and Peter Lorre has never quite gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade...