Word: dagobert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make matters worse, his dead father, famed Sir Dagobert, had always been a very model of knighthood, had throttled a hawk at the age of two, killed a wild boar at six. Willie wasn't impressed by such accounts, but his mother, the Dame de Littlehampton, wouldn't let him forget them; she was the kind of lady who expected her only son to make his mark on the armor and the life expectancy of his foes. When she hustled poor, terrified Willie off to join King Richard's crusade in the Holy Land, militant Christianity enlisted...
...DIARY AND SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS OF THOMAS A. EDISON (247 pp.)-Edited by Dagobert D. Runes-Philosophical Library...
...company got a new president, stocky, pink-jowled Edwin Dagobert Bransome. No engineer, Bransome pulled the company out of a financial hole. It promptly earned a profit of $152,000, Vanadium's first in six years. By 1944 Bransome was able to report to his stock holders that Vanadium had cleared $459,00 on gross sales of $16 million...
...publisher is Dagobert Donald Runes, a Viennese Ph.D. who runs a scholarly little busi ness in Manhattan. Since coming to the U.S. in 1927, he has issued encyclopedias and diction aries of philosophy, literature, child guidance, petroleum, science and technology...