Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promontory among noses it would have earned the admiration of Slawken-Bergius.*. . . It is indeed a very remarkable nose . . . and one which differentiates itself from other remarkable noses. It has not the tremendous hook of Lord Chatham's; it is not aspiring, like the Younger Pitt's, nor wildly ambitious, like Lady Hester Stanhope's, nor grandly aquiline, like the Iron Duke's; but as one studies it there is a temptation to think that it must be prehensile, like an elephant's trunk...
Small Four. George Burns had an early training in antics. Born Nat Birnbaum into a family of twelve children on Manhattan's crowded Pitt Street, he began his theatrical career of necessity at the age of seven, after his father died. George organized the Pee-Wee Quartet, featuring himself and a six-year-old basso. The four took turns passing the hat in saloons and backyards...
...Englishmen believed in the Catholic version of the landmass theory. They even tried to climb onto the Continent by attempting to conquer and rule France in the Hundred Years' War. But ever since Christendom split into Protestant and Catholic wings, Britons have been opposed to European unification. Marlborough, Pitt and Wellington have all fought to keep a balance of power on the European continent, and the small trading nations-The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries-have usually welcomed British intercession. When madmen like the French Bourbons, Napoleon and Hitler have tried to reconstitute the fabric of a united Europe...
...Turners' chunky, bespectacled Pearl Nightingale flew off with the women's all-round championship. Only on the balance beam, where contestants go through nerve-racking slow-motion acrobatics, was Champion Nightingale bested by any rival. The men's all-round title went to stocky little Arthur Pitt of the Swiss Gymnastic Society of Union City...
...Last week Tory Oliver Lyttelton, onetime metals magnate and now Minister of Production, told the Aldershot Conservative Assn.: "The great periods of our history were nearly always associated with an outstanding individual and not with a political system. We think of Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake, or Marlborough, Pitt and Nelson and of the Duke of Wellington; and it is on the ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox ideas that the vigor of national life depends. Nothing could be more ghastly than a uniform cowlike public opinion...