Word: dauphin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fields had little to do with many things that have happened in the U.S. recently, but almost everything to do with the Duke and the Dauphin and others who peopled Mark Twain's piazza. Not for Fields was the jet-propelled gagging of the radio studios, as fast and inhuman and footless as a new transcontinental speed record. His tempo was adagio...
...time, which destroys many more artful and more careful men, has vastly enhanced Audubon's greatness. His work hangs in scores of U.S. museums. He has been the hero of a round dozen biographies -and of several efforts to prove that he was really the "lost dauphin" of France. Popular editions of his Birds of America have sold over 200,000 copies. The Audubon Societies have perpetuated his name through hundreds of bird sanctuaries, imperceptibly transformed the artist who used to kill as many as 100 birds a day for sport into a sort of scientific St. Francis. Last...
...frivolous and arrogant. By editing out a good deal of their foolishness, by flawless casting, directing and playing, and by a wonderfully paced appreciation of the dead hours of rural night, Olivier transforms the French into sleepy, overconfident, highly intelligent, highly sophisticated noblemen, subtly disunified, casually contemptuous of their Dauphin -an all but definitive embodiment of a civilization a little too ripe to survive...
...Joan of Arc was (traditionally) a sweet-faced, lissome brunette who fired a disunited France and its weakling Dauphin to clear French soil of a 15th-Century invader...
...money to Christian employment. Last week he thought he had one. He converted his business into a trust and provided that, except for a modest living for himself and wife, its income should go to public schools in the districts served by his company (mostly in Lancaster, York and Dauphin Counties). There were no strings on how the money should be used. But each school district's share depended on two things: 1) the number of its pupils, 2) the amount of oil its citizens bought from Schock Independent...