Word: denouement
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...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...
...Denmark enthusiasts founded a principality of Atlantis, issued coins and stamps and placed Prince Christian on their imaginary throne. In Germany another wrote a book to prove that Atlantis was the original home of the Aryans, that when it was destroyed only three Aryans escaped. "Then comes the unexpected denouement," says Author Bramwell. "It turns out that the whole point of the book is to show that the author is descended from Jupiter." Although Lost Atlantis contains careful expositions of the Atlantean arguments, the main impression it communicates is not that Atlantis ever existed but that Author Bramwell...
...machinery of P. B. H., a reaffirmation of the idealism that must in the end enliven an organization founded in memory of Bishop Brooks--these have been placed on paper. Thus a recent growth of activity in Harvard's charitable institution has been climaxed; with the constitution the denouement should be effective and long...