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Word: pettit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Thomas Dubois Hormel, 23, son of Meatpacker Jay Catherwood (Spam) Hormel, and an art student at Palos Verdes College in Rolling Hills, Calif.; and Simone Mostovoy, 20, onetime Parisian ballerina with the Roland Pettit Ballet; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Blot looked back at the galleys of the story, wondered if Neihbur was the right spelling, didn't know, decided to leave it. As he thumbed through the galleys, he noticed N. Pettit's name upside-down on the masthead, thought it would be a good gag to leave...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Lampoon | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

...third period, as the Crimson put a sharp Brown goalie, Dave Halvorsen, to the test. Unfortunately he passed. Crimson wing George Chase left the ice with a stick cut over his ear, and after a solo drive by Norm Wood had been twarted by Halvorsen, Keefe and Bob Pettit combined again for the fourth Bruin score...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Crimson Penalties Help Bruin Skaters Win 4-3 | 2/25/1953 | See Source »

Baseball's high-priced bonus player is as often as not a disappointing flop. Two current examples: Pittsburgh's Pitcher Paul Pettit ($100,000), now laboring for his fourth minor-league club, the Hollywood (class AAA) Stars, and Cleveland's Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson (more than $100,000), who has yet to show much of anything in the Class B Tri-State League. In Brooklyn last week, Dodger fans were happily pointing to a less expensive ($22,000) exception: Righthander Billy Loes (rhymes with throws), a good-looking 22-year-old who did his schoolboy pitching right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bonus for Brooklyn | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...final two stories represent the most obvious and most used type of humor distortion of events or other literature. Norman Pettit's Island Sunset is. I think a satire on Hemingway's style. Petit uses the same short action packed sentences to build and atmosphere which would not be out of place in a Hemingway work. It is however very easy to imitate Hemingway's style without touching his character and plot development and that is all Pettit has done...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Lampoon | 5/13/1952 | See Source »

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