Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Romantic General Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger was the dominating figure in French politics in 1888-89. He fled before the Government could arrest him for a plotted royalist coup d'état. In 1891 he committed suicide on his mistress' tomb in Brussels...
Singlehanded, Leo Ernest Durocher has probably set sport's code of fair play back a hundred years. His fits of anger rise and blow away like gusty March winds over Greenpoint. He uses these gusts to advantage. Durocher's credo is: "You've got to win in this game, and how you do it isn't too important...
Invitation to a Haymaker. At 40, Leo Ernest Durocher is the most talked-about and most unloved man in baseball. From heavy-lidded eyes he stares a perpetual challenge to the world. He fears no man. His square chin juts an open invitation for somebody to hit it-and about half of baseball's players and umpires, at one time or another, have resolved to do just that thing some...
Former University students David G. Lyon '32 and Ernest Hampden were driven back by the intense heat and flames as they tried to push into the living room in an attempt to rescue Gardner. They too turned in an alarm and then battled the blaze unsuccessfully with a hand extinguisher...
...Macomber Affair (Bogeaus-Robinson; United Artists) is a screen version of Ernest Hemingway's excruciating study of the relationships between an ill-married American couple and their hired English hunter-guide, and of the relations of all three to what Hemingway once called "grace under pressure...