Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of action, settings, lines, incidental characters, facial expressions, and omnipresent fog. They would feel themselves drawn into this gray morass until they themselves know the inevitable bleak prospect awaiting these characters. They would feel actual physical strain in the suspense which piles up to the only possible denouement...
Last week the denouement came when
...week-old mystery of the missing Robert I. Myerson '42 reached its denouement yesterday afternoon when University officials received a terse telegram sent by the boy's father from Salt Lake City, Utah, revealing that he had been located there in sound health and good spirits...
...Manhattan last week a great courtroom drama reached a sudden denouement. Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey having shown to his own satisfaction that Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines was the political fixer for Harlem's numbers racket, had rested the State's case. The defense had begun to put its witnesses upon the stand. One of them, young Lawyer Lyon Boston, onetime assistant to Tammany's District Attorney William C. Dodge, testified that Tammanyite Dodge had deputed him to investigate Tammanyite Hines's long-rumored connection with the numbers racket, that he had found no evidence against Hines...
...fabulous prices, facilitates a budding romance between young Sally Ward (Bonita Granville) and Peter Trimble (Jackie Cooper), stimulates Paul Ward to invent not one but two different types of automatic icebox, and cures Mrs. Ward of the chronic droops. By all this audiences are prepared to believe in the denouement of the story and the omnipotence of the Golden Rule...