Word: petered
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...