Word: dauntlesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guard Dauntless ("Plated") Stepling, who will spend this morning on the bench nursing a case of delirium tremens and a hip flask...
...start of France's annual Prix Alfred Leblanc balloon race, and nine dauntless aeronauts from France, The Netherlands and Switzerland were on hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
Claudette Colbert is a dauntless, stylish, long-suffering widow who has turned her back on love (Walter Pidgeon) in order to raise two stepchildren and pay off her late husband's debts. The stepson (Robert Sterling), just home from the Navy, is a nice, levelheaded boy. But the stepdaughter (June Allyson) is something straight out of Freud. Since no one has ever told her that the adored father who died when she was five was a weakling, a dipsomaniac and a thief, June sits all day at the piano, strumming Debussy and mooning over daddy's memory. Meanwhile...
Love & Kisses. Dauntless David Selznick stepped into the door in 1941. In return for a chance to obtain one-third of U.A.'s stock (now worth an estimated $4 million), David agreed to deliver ten pictures to U.A. within 20 years. At the contract signing, all was love & kisses...
...Dauntless Harry Truman said, with emphasis, that he knew about these things because he lived in one of the greatest cattle-producing states and had spent all his young days feeding hogs and cattle. To the accompaniment of loud and appreciative laughter from his audience he added that he knew what he was talking about (see below...