Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three known sets of George Washington's false teeth, one was wooden (they pricked his gums with splinters), one iron (which port wine discolored) and one-a natty set-of ivory...
...Marie du Port (Bellon-Foulke International) is a rueful French comedy relating, with De Maupassant relish, the unequal struggle between a middle-aged roue (Jean Gabin) and an innocent young barmaid (Nicole Courcel), who is the young sister of his mistress. While his mistress attends her father's funeral in a Breton fishing village, Gabin idles about the town, casts a speculative eye on a boat which is for sale and on the barmaid who is not. Both boat and barmaid bring him back to tiny Port-au-Bessein, but he is unable to enjoy either: the boat...
...them to private viewings got rude refusals or no answer at all. Socialite neighbors who asked to come and bring their weekend guests got the blunt advice: "Take your guests to the movies." Some of Barnes's curter notes were signed with the name Fidéle de Port Manech, his mongrel bitch. The general public crusty old Connoisseur Barnes dismissed as untutored "diversion seekers," just as objectionable when they gushed approval as when they expressed stubborn distaste...
Died. Henri Philippe Omer Benoit Joseph Pétain, 95, Marshal of France, hero of Verdun in World War I, symbol of French defeatism and defeat in World War II; in Port Joinville, Ile d'Yeu, where he had been since June 29, when his life prison sentence for treason, already commuted from death, was commuted again to confinement in a hospital. To the end, Pétain insisted that, as Premier in 1940, he capitulated to the Nazis and then collaborated with them to "spare" France. "You may judge me according to your conscience," he told the court...
...shore, the young tar had a rather quieter time. He once went hard-alee for a pretty little Portuguese, and had to do some tricky navigation to get out of port; but in general, says the prim old sea dog, "I always kept a straight course and gave them a wide berth, as I had no use for painted-faced daisies...