Word: pimpernel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scarlet Pimpernel, Friday and Saturday...
Taste for Danger. Some German papers criticized Meeker as a soldier of fortune, but most West Germans hailed him as a hero, a latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, Meeker says he was paid $3,900 for each mission, and money was not the question. His friends and former colleagues believe him. A handsome, mustachioed graduate of Columbia University who speaks six languages, he is described by a U.S. Army official as "one of those kinds of guys"-a Terry-and-the-Pirates type of airman with a taste for danger. Flying assault and rescue missions in Viet...
INTERVAL is a kind of vanity production produced by and starring Merle Oberon, 62. She has had finer moments (Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel). Miss Oberon is always being consulted on such questions as "How do you feel about love?" "Have you ever made love without love?" - and is in turn forever dispensing bits of Mary Worth wisdom like "We're all caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around...
ELIOT HOUSE DINING HALL, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Marx Brothers Shorts, March...
...President was apparently responding to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev's offer to Henry Kissinger. The Kissinger mission had been conducted with the usual successful secrecy. Like a contemporary Scarlet Pimpernel, the unpredictable foreign policy adviser had casually sauntered into a Georgetown salon one evening as if he did not have a care in the world. When the party was over, he jumped into a limousine and was driven to Andrews Air Force Base, where he took off for Moscow. Lodged in a spacious villa with an expansive view of the Moscow River and the city beyond, Kissinger spent...