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Word: petered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including the shower she had left running in making her get-away, an irate concierage, imperturbable relatives, and an Italian galloping trombone band. In an air of intensified pseudo-coherence the couple reunites and, to the tone of widly churning music, the movie canters to a resolution atop St. Peter's Cathedral...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The White Sheik | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...Work for Money. When Author Mitford (the Hon. Mrs. Peter Rodd) heard of Ross's paper, she dashed off an essay for Encounter elaborating his theme (her chief U distinction: "The purpose of the aristocrat is most emphatically not to work for money"). To this, Novelist Evelyn Waugh added a non-U note of his own: "All nannies and many governesses, when pouring out tea, put the milk in first." In the Spectator, the journalist "Strix" (Peter Fleming) pointed out that in U-speech there is "a relish for incongruity." Hence, a dull party can be a disaster, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's U? | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Born. To Peter Ustinov, 35, pudgy British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis, We're No Angels), and Suzanne Cloutier, 27, Canadian-born cinemactress: their second child, his third, a son; in London. Name: Igor Nicholas. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Varsity heavies Fritz Schwarz, stroke; Carter Harrison, seven; Jeff Locke, six; Ted McCagg, five; Charlie Atkinson, four; Captain Jack Lapsley, three; Art Hodges, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Peter Milton, coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Boatings | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

Freshman heavies: Mark Hoffman, stroke; Peter Tulloch, seven; Jim Leonard, six; Jim McClennen, five; Townsend Swayze, four; Paul Wohlford, three; Claude Nuzum, two; Jim Meade, bow; Barrow Peale, coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Boatings | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

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