Word: doe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France. All he cares about is joy-in useless beauty, in the purity of animals. Carried away by his precept and example, the farmers reduce their planting to what they can eat, turn their animals loose, crowd their fallow land with narcissi, make friends with a stag and his doe. Having set up his earthly paradise, Giono regretfully proceeds in his closing chapters to knock it to pieces. He does so none too logically. Jean Giono has a genius for observing, and recording, the splendors of the natural world, the beauty of natural tasks and pleasures. The book has been...
...master of Charity is the man who raised its new building, who supervised the planting of every one of the 10,000 supporting pylons: Pathologist Rigney D'Aunoy. Descendant of an old Creole family that moved to New Orleans around 1750, warm-hearted Dr. D'Aunoy (pronounced Doe-nwah) is No. 1 U. S. authority on the little-known third venereal disease, Lymphogranuloma inguinale...
...Alley's current trend has been called "the double-entendre era" by Eli Oberstein, president of U. S. Record Corp. Mr. Oberstein's biggest hit (150,000 copies) is She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, ostensibly written by John Doe and Joe Doaques (actually Hugh Prince and Don Raye). A sister piece, She Really Meant to Keep It Till She Married, has sold 75,000 records for Mr. Oberstein. Not yet recorded is I'm a Virgin but I'm On the Verge, by ASCAP Member Paul Denniker...
Frank Capra, famous Hollywood producer and director, is sending a representative to the East to give screen tests in an attempt to find "an average American" for the impending screen play, "The Life of John Doe," it was announced last night. Among other places the tests will be given at Harvard...