Word: dunn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME...
...tells of the crucial year during which Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner) ceases to be a child. It is a year during which Francie learns that her charming, drunken, incompetent father (James Dunn) may be dearly loved, but not indiscriminately worshipped. She develops, and overcomes, a stony hostility towards her bitter, pennypinching mother. She endures her father's piteous death and-in a bold, overloaded sequence-watches her mother writhe in childbed. Through such experiences, and with the help of a kind teacher, she begins to transmute her weakness for fantasy-building into the tempered imagination of a writer...
Peggy Ann Garner, a lovely child, is perfectly cast as the plain-pretty, primly sensitive little heroine. Dorothy McGuire (Claudia), though much too young to play her mother, again proves herself one of the most accomplished young U.S. actresses. But the standout of the picture is ex-star Jimmy Dunn as the weak, gallant father. Publicity writers did not exaggerate, for once, when they called his performance "the most sensational comeback in years...
...Chambered Nautilus knows that the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor. But not many know or remember that John Keats, Oliver Goldsmith, Friedrich Schiller, Tobias Smollett, George Crabbe, Robert Bridges, Francis Thompson, and Lieut. Colonel John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) were also medical men. So was Thomas Dunn English, the man who wrote Ben Bolt. Most of these writers were doctors only incidentally, and almost none of their poems in the anthology refer to medicine (exception: Holmes's The Morning Visit...
...Edward R. Stettinius' team, and went home. But New Deal Congressmen still had reservations about three, in particular, of the six appointees: William L. Clayton, whom they consider a "cartelist"; Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, whom they partly blame for the Darlan policy in 1942; veteran Diplomat James Dunn, whom they regard as the villain of the U.S. appeasement policy toward Franco...