Word: dion
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...Wonder Why, Dion & Belmonts...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "The Victorians: London Assurance" is a lively comedy by Dion Boucicault about an elderly nobleman who takes a fancy to an 18-year-old heiress...
...appreciation of the glory that was Greece has produced three fine period novels-The Last of the Wine, The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea-each fondly flavored with enthusiasm and scholarship. In this fourth reconstruction of the Hellenic past, she grapples with the ordeal of Dion of Syracuse, who tried vainly, 24 centuries ago, to convert a tyranny into Plato's ideal city-state. This theme does not easily catch the modern fancy; after all, the roll of centuries has only emphasized the unattainability of Dion's dream. It appears that Author Renault...
That covers an awful lot of drivers and an awful lot of races. Auto racing is as old as the second automobile. The first organized race was exactly 71 years ago, in 1894, and it was won by a bowler-hatted French nobleman named Count de Dion (later to be immortalized by having a racing rear axle named after him), who drove his steamer from Paris to Rouen, a distance of 79 miles, at an average speed of 12.6 m.p.h. Daredevil De Dion could not possibly have guessed the contagion he was spreading. Other races followed quickly-to Bordeaux, Marseille...
...STREETS OF NEW YORK are drenched in crocodile tears in this gay musical spoof of Dion Boucicault's bustling and be-bustled 19th century tale of a dastard of a banker...