Word: pips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Matt Joseph ("Colonel") Winn. 88, impresario of the Kentucky Derby, who ballyhooed what was once a pip-squeak. Dixie picnic into one of the U.S. racing classics (worth $100,000 to three-year-olds and over $8,000,000 annually to Louisville merchants); after an operation; in Louisville. A straight-bourbon man, Horseman Winn credited his longevity to the fact that he never drank until noon, boasted that after taking over Churchill Downs in 1902, he never placed a bet (although he introduced the pari-mutuel betting machine) or owned a horse...
...radar scope, a weak "pip" (signal) can be built up by the gain control to a maximum height, where it reaches a "trembling...
Like a number of Dickens' novels, "Great Expectations" is loosely constructed. It centers around the boyhood and early manhood of Pip, who has spent his early years with his sister, the wife of a blacksmith. There are two completely separate plots, which Dickens, with characteristic wantonness, connects at the end by means of pure coincidence. Condemned as lack of skill, this deus ex machina shows only that the author was more interested in character, scene, and the fate of his hero than he was in the mechanics of plot...
...Pip was kind to an escaped convict on the marshes. The convict is given his freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves...
Every character is a type and an individual, and every one is well-acted. There is Jaggers, the keen, comfortable and surprisingly soft-hearted lawyer; Pip as a boy, played with magnificent restraint, obedient, kind-hearted, and romantic; Miss Havisham, the grotesque bride of another day, who dies horribly in the great, old, rat-infested house. Practically every character is sympathetic and human, yet each holds a menace of grotesque evilness in himself, something that is brought out more clearly, yet just as subtly, in the movie as in the novel...