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Word: dione (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to his classic, gang-style death, Roger Touhy was buried quietly, with no flowers, no eulogies, in Mount Carmel Cemetery, known as the Boot Hill of gangsters. Near by are the tombs of Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti and Paul ("Needle Nose") La Briola. Dion O'Banion is also buried there, and near the Touhy plot is a grave site reserved for Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo, kingpin of Chicago's rackets, and present unchallenged boss of the Capone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death on the Steps | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...unconscious, and expressionism opening a crazy-shaped door on the unrealistic, O'Neill grew bolder in his broodings-and more confused. In The Great God Brown, his psychological quarry was the split personality, his technical gimmick the use of masks. Turning a masked face to the world, Dion Anthony (Fritz Weaver) seems Panlike, violent, blasphemous, sexually magnetic. Without his mask, Anthony quivers and quakes, is reverent toward God and repellent to women. Dion's school friend Billy Brown (Robert Lansing) grows up decent and successful but frustrated. He envies Dion's personality, craves Dion's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play on Broadway, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...refused to extend the 60-day visa of the Moscow Patriarchate's Archbishop Boris to permit him to serve as Exarch for North and South America, the Communists retaliated by expelling Assumptionist Father Georges Bissonnette and refusing to grant a visa to his successor, the Rev. Louis F. Dion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Priest for Moscow | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...deadlock was broken when the State Department announced that it had granted a 90-day visa to Archbishop Boris. And last week Father Dion, 44, a native of Worcester, Mass., where he is registrar of Assumption College, had his visa at last, planned to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Priest for Moscow | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...were candy bars, gets a schoolboy crush on a studio still of Jean Harlow, and in fact has only one fault. He frequently rubs people the wrong way: out. The Big Mouthpiece (Robert Taylor), with his white-piped vests and pencil-line mustache, looks like a proper pallbearer at Dion O'Banion's funeral. The Chorus Girl (Cyd Charisse) is overwearily underworldly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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