Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rita. Prince and Cucuface set off on a cheerful pilgrim's progress from Paris to the Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with...
Narrow Margin--At the Pilgrim Stars Charles McGraw and Jaquilene White in a thriller that rivals Alfred Hitchcok's best...
None of the goings-on aboard the movie's Mayflower is in the popular tradition of the Pilgrim Fathers. The big romance is between Captain Christopher Jones (Spencer Tracy) and the seductive Mrs. Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney). wife of the colony's Governor-to-be William Bradford. By the time the ship drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor, Dorothy and the captain have done a little light romancing and she takes the easiest way out of the triangle by drowning herself...
...John Dos Passes (one of five reviewers in the Saturday Review): "Among the testimonials of the suffering spirit of man I think the book will stand high, somewhere between Dostoevsky's The Possessed and the narratives of the adventures of the light within like Pilgrim's Progress...
...Lincoln Grows Up, learned the Gettysburg Address, and Mrs. Vining "entertained hopes that some day at a diplomatic dinner, he would be able to dazzle the American Ambassador by an apt quotation." By the time Mrs. Vining's four years were up, the Prince was reading Pilgrim's Progress, could chatter away fluently...