Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monocle in eye, he motored around in a black Packard. He revisited his old school, Winchester, talked to the boys about India, saw the movie Colonel Blimp, once complained: "One word of command from me is obeyed by millions . . . but I cannot get my three daughters, Pamela, Felicity and Joan, to come down to breakfast on time." In India, where the nationalist press criticized his appointment as vigorously as censorship allowed, he was likely to have more troubles than that...
...seventh heaven. I went every night to his house. Then he dropped me." With the Errol Flynn case scarcely disposed of, a pretty red-haired Hollywood drama student named Joan Berry was speaking of apple-cheeked little Charles Spencer Chaplin. The mother of pregnant Miss Berry filed a paternity suit against the 54-year-old comedian, asked $10,000 for prenatal care, $5,000 court costs, $2,500 a month for the support of the child. Pending a court hearing, Chaplin declared: "I am not responsible for Miss Berry's condition." He charged incidentally that she had demanded...
...East Anglia town Joan Smee was sitting in a municipal office "when a tracer bullet came through the window and went through my hair, setting it on fire." Somebody in the office put the fire...
Offstage were Joan and Barbara Dempsey, eight and six. They were the purse...
...doings. " DeLancey Ferguson (professor of English at Western Reserve University) does an orderly tour of Mark Twain's professional career through his last lonely years, solaced by frenzied billiard games, Baconian theories, a glorified piano player, the dictation of his Autobiography. " Every character he ever wrote about, including Joan of Arc," says Ferguson, "was either drawn from the intensive experience of his first thirty years or conceived in its spirit." Ferguson is an apostle of solid sense, has no time for the "dire Freudian symbolism...