Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award is presented by the Burma Translation Society, which is headed by Prime Minister Thakin Nu. It goes to the best novel of the year, in this case On Pe's Min Hmu Dan ("The Civil Servant"), a story of the corrupt bu reaucracy run by Burmese and British officials during Britain's rule in Burma...
...Dan Dailey) and an expert "inside man" (Sam Jaffe) into a manufacturing partnership in the $10.95 dress line, cons her sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...
...such good reports in recent years, the Erie, once "synonymous with bankruptcy, litigation, fraud and failure," has lived down its reputation as the "Scarlet Woman of Wall Street." The man who seduced the Erie was an ex-cattle drover named Daniel Drew, a director from 1853 to 1868. "Uncle Dan'l" made millions juggling Erie stock* on Wall Street, but never gave the common stockholders a nickel, giving rise to the saying: "Icicles will sprout in hell before Erie common pays a dividend...
...Dan Mannix was a flop at Annapolis. On review, his uniform and brace were technically correct, but the total effect reminded the commandant of somebody "going duck hunting." The Mannix temperament was incorrigibly informal for Annapolis, and the Navy gave up at the end of his plebe year (1932). Dan Mannix found a new vocation for himself-and the makings of a lively little book-when he stopped to watch Flamo, the fire-eater, in a traveling carnival show...
E.C.A. would be surprised that Williams is having trouble locating the bones for the skeleton is a celebrity on the other side of the Atlantic. Mention was made of it in the well-known book, "Esthetique des Proportions dans la Nature of dan Arts...