Word: dreyfus
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...entertainment: a Paris movie theater. And that the Jews, Hitler's special victims, might have had a crucial hand in his defeat - indeed, that a French Jewess could have ignited her own holocaust of the Führer and his top aides with the words: "My name is Shoshanna Dreyfus. And this is the face of Jewish vengeance...
...LIFE magazine called him a maverick wizard for his skills as a top mutual-fund manager. But in the '70s, Jack Dreyfus, 95, became a tireless promoter for the epilepsy drug Dilantin as a cure for depression--which he once suffered from--and other ailments...
...cats at the tray corporations won’t tell Joe Harvard is that it takes as much water to wash one tray as it does to wash five. FACT: That is impossible. FACT: The tray lobby was responsible for the sinking of the Spanish Armada, the Dreyfus Affair and stagflation...
...people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gustave Flaubert, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Dreyfus - and also Jerry Lewis. Not surprisingly, some observers suggest that the contrast in achievements of its various honorees has cheapened the medal to the point of self-parody...
...REPUBLICAN EX-NAVAL officer known for his tax cuts could easily have become a cookie-cutter partisan. Former Wisconsin Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus just didn't think that way. So in 1982 the charismatic onetime college chancellor signed the nation's first gay-rights law prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations. The matter-of-fact Governor insisted that not intruding on private lives was a distinctly Republican virtue. "There is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with and who you love," he said. Dreyfus...