Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VERY REV.) JAMES A. PIKE...
...head of England's great Puritan, open mouth still drawn down in disapproval of a godless generation, glowered for a new master last week. Dr. Horace Wilkinson of Kettering, Northamptonshire, wondered what to do with a family heirloom left by his late father, Canon Horace Wilkinson, the pike-impaled head of Oliver Cromwell...
...disinterred and hanged. The cadaver dangled on a gibbet all day long on the twelfth anniversary of Charles I's execution, then was cut down and decapitated; the body was buried under the gallows at Tyburn (near London's present Marble Arch), the head stuck on a pike and displayed atop Westminster Hall. When a high wind blew it down after long exposure, a soldier carried it home...
...aspects of the art-atmosphere and character. As for Gazzara. who made his Broadway reputation in End As a Man, A Hatful of Rain and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, this picture has already given him a Hollywood name as the most huggable heavy to come down the pike since Humphrey Bogart was young...
After lunch, there are various scenic trips prepared by the management to such places as Pike's Peak, Echo Canyon, the Royal Gorge Bridge, or the Will Rogers Memorial located halfway up Cheyenne Mountain. At night there is hockey. Over the weekend, there are numerous social functions such as teas and dances, which are all staffed by CC girls...