Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
...heart and lungs from the stomach and intestines. Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. repairs diaphragmatic hernia with such skill that the American Medical Association gave him a gold medal for his operative technique. Last month the Press made a great sentimental to-do about one Alyce Jane McHenry, 10, of Omaha who, born with a ruptured diaphragm, was sped cross-country to Fall River and Dr. Truesdale's Hospital for an operation. Last week Dr. Truesdale, home from a leisurely Caribbean cruise, put Patient McHenry on the table, opened her up, pushed her intestines and stomach...
...girls were Elizabeth and Jane du Bois, only children of Coert du Bois, U. S. Consul General at Naples. Jane, 20, dominated her 23-year old sister. Both were sensitive, high-strung. Few weeks before, they had become very much attached to two British Royal Air Force officers who had been delayed at Naples on a flight to Singapore. One of the officers planned to break his engagement to a Bedfordshire dancing instructress to marry Jane. The other officer had an "understanding" with Elizabeth. Few hours after the officers left Naples they crashed in Sicily, died in flames...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...
Holbein's Edward VI as a Child was painted by order of the little Prince's mother, Jane Seymour, in 1538 as a New Year's present for Henry VIII. Hanging in Windsor Castle for years, it is believed that either George I or George II took it to Hanover. There it passed to the Duke of Cumberland-Brunswick and eventually to Knoedler & Co. who sold it to Mr. Mellon...