Word: pipping
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...scramble for the covered orchids et al, it would occasion little surprise if the boy and girl who play Pip and Esiella when young get the largest balsam. One of equal size and fragrance should grace the village black smith Joe, who is delightful. Henry Hall is up to his usual standard as the convict, although he seems to have stepped straight out of "Tobacco Road" forgetting to re-touch his make up. Florence Reed is a grisly bridge, growing yearly more grisly as the morbid Miss Havisham. Her twenty year old wedding cake is such a masterpiece of Hollywood...
...rigmarole about old convicts, London swells, blacksmiths, eccentric old ladies, orphans with mysterious benefactors and gypsy servant girls, animated by coincidence and honeycombed with nonsense, its only similarity to a salable cinema narrative is a banal happy ending. Its main plot line, concerning the love of a young man, Pip, for an arrogant debutante, Estella, is confused by being intermittently subordinated to a mystery story...
...took Francis Hackett almost five years to write his biography of Francis I. In November he promised his publishers: "The final section will be ready in December unless I get the pip." He writes of the completed book, "The beginning is quiet, simplified, kept sober in style. The second section is the opening of the fruit. Here is the Man in action as King, in love, in intrigue, in battle, at court, the spender and speculator and crook and adventurer. I have tried to squeeze the juice of French characteristics into these pages and to make him as human...
...Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker of his day (2nd Century), he calls "the most modern of all writers of antiquity," compares him favorably with Anatole France, Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken. Though D. H. Lawrence "gives him the pip" in practical matters, on the whole he approves of him, allows him to stand with such fire-bringers as Aretino, Apideius, Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell...