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Word: denise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Yes, My Lieutenant,' b Denis Fodor, is a humorous tale. It mixes the tensions og guerrilla fighting in the mountains of Greece with the comedy that is in the pointlessness and incongruity of war. The Government's peasant soldiers are dupes not because they are going to be killed, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outstanding Story Redeems Spring Advocate | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

The Old Lady Says "No!" (by Denis Johnston; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) followed John Bull's Other Island as the Dublin Gate Theater's second Broadway offering. A highly expressionistic fantasy first produced in 1929, it tells of an actor (Miche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

For centuries, France's spinsters (technically all unmarried women over 25) have cut loose once a year on the day of their saint (who was a spinster herself). Last week, according to custom, the procession of "Catherinettes" (composed largely of midinettes in crazy headgear) stampeded to the saint'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Happy Day for the Wise | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Nearly all the victims had been operated on for disorders of the uterus, ovaries, etc. (two had had stomach operations). In each case the operation had seemed successful. But within 24 hours, every one of the patients had shown the same fatal symptoms: coma, rapid loss of reflexes, and what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Puzzle of the 17 Patients | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Then the 16th victim died. The town began to buzz with ugly rumors. The townspeople began to call it "I'HÔpital de la Mort." Dr. Denis ordered all gynecological patients isolated in private rooms behind locked doors. By mistake, one patient was taken to a ward after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Puzzle of the 17 Patients | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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