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Word: petered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scotswoman of giant size, impressive intellect and unassailable chastity, meets in Rome a gentle, saintly priest who tries desperately to root out "her utter disbelief and her utter contempt of Heaven and Earth.'' When arguments fail, he finally confronts her with the brooding, majestic statue of St. Peter in the Vatican, a figure so noble in size and concept that it dwarfs even Lady Flora's proud body and arrogant mind. She comes daily to stand in communion with the statue and watch the devout worshipers kiss St. Peter's foot. One day a rude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grotesque & Sublime | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...Peter Briggs, Jr. '54, writing in the October 26 issue of the Alumni Bulletin, compiled the results from the 334 replies to the questionnaire. Their comments show the concern of students "with the problem of college selection," he writes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Shows Finances Bar Potential Students | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

Leach, who had advocated a larger defense budget in a speech last week, pointed out that the restoration of this money merely means that cuts will be made elsewhere in the defense budget. "You don't solve anything by robbing Peter to pay Paul," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leach Sees No Gain In Restored Arms Cut | 10/30/1957 | See Source »

...late thirties and early forties, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre starred in a series of exceptional mystery films. The Mask of Dimitrios, like The Maltese Falcon, On Green Dolphin Street and Casablanca, follows modern fairy-tale characters through intriguing morasses of international espionage, murder, and blackmail with a charm that remains fresh...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Mask of Dimitrios | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...good guy" roles, Peter Lorre plays a Dutch college professor and novelist who hears of the legendary Dimitrios Makropoulos in Istanbul, and begins a search for biographical material which leads him across tense, 1938 Europe to Paris and a meeting with the ruthless spy. The fabulous, impossible plot unwinds in smokey cabarets in Athens, on the slick, rain-shiny streets of some hiding city, and on trains rattling through electric nights towards Paris...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Mask of Dimitrios | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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