Word: denise
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Denis might also have been surprised to see his wife's career blossom just as his was ending. Born in London in 1915, he was sent to Mill Hill, a second-drawer boarding school, then went on to join the Royal Artillery. By the end of World War II...
One evening in 1949, he offered a young Tory candidate named Margaret Roberts, then 23, a lift home from a political meeting. They were married two years later. By then, Denis had inherited the family business and considerable wealth. Maggie quit work, studied law, gave birth to twins, Carol and...
But Denis is the member of the family who has won the hearts of Private Eye readers. "We parody him," says Wells, "because he is a stock figure in English society. But the real point of the letters is not so much to expose the mad antics of Denis as...
Denis
The most engaging star turn is that of Denis Lawson, who appeared briefly in each of the Star Wars movies and won friends as the cagey innkeeper in Local Hero. He leads a sprightly revival of the 1929 English musical Mr. Cinders, a pleasant romantic twist on the Cinderella story...