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Word: dianas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diana Herbert, as Hull's daughter, is easily the most inept member of the cast. She telegraphs all her lines by constantly fidgeting; when she speaks, she throws her arms into impossible gestures. Charles Nolte, of Billy Budd fame, plays Miss Herbert's husband very weakly. Endowed with an unbelievably cherubic face, Nolte is being type-cast as an unbelievable good character. This may be all right for the symbol of a good man. But no real man, especially a rough-hewn mountaineer, is that good...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: A Little Evil | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). The Men I Marry, with Diana Lynn, John Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Three two-week productions of the New York City Drama Festival: Ibsen's The Wild Duck, with Maurice Evans and Diana Lynn; Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, with Celeste Holm; Clemence Dane's Come of Age, with Judith Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Futures | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...years the little mummy lay in the museum on a bed of naphthalene crystals in a cheap, brown-stained wooden box. Its rusted cloth wrappings were worm-eaten and frayed with age. The exposed face and head were blackened by the embalming process. Because the name was translated as Diana, Vancouver's schoolchildren were led to believe that their favorite exhibition was once a young girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Murdered Mummy | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...British Museum in London, Dr. T. C. Skeat studied the X-ray pictures and agreed that "Diana" had probably been murdered, had certainly been misnamed. Skeat retranslated the inked inscription on the mummy's chest wrappings, announced that the boy's name was Panechates, son of Hatres. Undoubtedly of noble birth, the unlucky child may have been liquidated by an ambitious rival. Burial took place some time in the 3rd century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Murdered Mummy | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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