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Word: duboise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the few eminent persons thought to have been innocently gulled was mentioned His Eminence Louis Ernest Cardinal Dubois, venerable Archbishop of Paris.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Methods! | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Israel Dubois, a New Orleans blackamoor, has fought bravely through the War in the Foreign Legion. Therefore he gets the notion that he is qualified to marry a pretty French barkeeper, which he does, after romancing to her of his vast estates in the U. S. Not until his old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Here is the big scene. You have been waiting for Major Powell to face his old servant after sleeping with his wife but, using the one-two punch that can be as effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

The play closes weakly enough, neither answering nor emphasizing the problem on which it is constructed. The Major, compelled to recognize his servant as a man, explains the circumstances of the murder to a French official who is full of stagey gallantry. Then, taking Israel Dubois with him, Major Powell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

There are plenty of flaws in the construction and direction of Goin' Home-enough, perhaps, to prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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