Word: pips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pip is something that sends shivers down the back and saps all the energy in the body. Did you ever see a hen with pip? Her wings are drooped, her feathers ruffled, her head hangs down . . . her cackle is gone, her eyes are watery. . . . She is sick all over...
...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...