Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan of Arc serves him for a symbol of France-peasant and saint, feminine yet a soldier, she too was hoaxed into recantation, into momentary surrender, by the casuists and torturers, the enemy propagandists of her time. To Bernanos, France remains at heart a Christian and human patrie of which he believes 18th-Century economic nationalism made nothing but a caricature. The bourgeoisie that inherited France in the French Revolution never, he thinks, fooled the French people. "It found itself in the position of a parvenu who, after acquiring a historic estate, wonders how to make himself respected...
...elbows in hospital work was Louise Macy Hopkins, Harry's smart and pretty bride, who took an evening out to recruit nurses' aids for the Red Cross with Recruit Joan Fontaine. Columned Eleanor Roosevelt enthusiastically: "[She] is such an ardent nurse's aid worker . . . that she has more than 300 hours to her credit already and can do certain types of work which newcomers are not permitted to undertake." At Columbia Hospital in Washington, Nurse's Aid Louise Hopkins, from 9 to 4: makes beds, takes temperatures, feeds helpless patients, carries bedpans, fills water bottles...
...Joan Hoff Thorsen, a recently married college graduate (Northwestern U.), a New York model for less than a year, shot up from nowhere to ring the bell like this: in the next few weeks her face will be on the covers of LIFE, Woman's Home Companion, Saturday Evening Post, Redbook and American Magazine; Walter Winchell labeled her the most beautiful model in Manhattan. Why: her face; the rest: 35-in. bust, ditto hips, 25-in. waist, 5 ft. 8½ in. height, 114 lb. Eleanor Roosevelt modeled again, this time a two-piece wool suit-dress in Eleanor...
...play Saint Joan (1924) was his biggest box-office success. Asked if it meant he was about to become a Roman Catholic, Shaw cracked: "There's no room for two Popes...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Walter Huston, Irene Manning, Joan Leslie; TIME, June...