Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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So, gentle Chaos, let me sit and dream The lost delights of your reviled regime. One pressed a switch and lo! The Light was found (Today you would be fined ?100). Water and Gas obeyed the humblest hand, Though greedy Tories still controlled the land. Coal, too, almost like water...
Rather than ask his wife for a divorce, the doctor fakes his own accidental death in order to live with Singer Nora Prentiss. He fakes it so clumsily that he is accused of his own murder. In still another accident, he gets so badly scarred that his own wife doesn't recognize him. He refuses to defend or identify himself and swears Nora to secrecy...
What Unionist Sullivan hoped, he said, was that "the honest, decent men who compose the overwhelming majority of the labor movement in Canada [will be aroused] to the danger . . . before it is too late." He is making his position public, he said, because "an unavoidable accident might occur to myself...
In December, after bouncing out of a well-heated studio into windy Rockefeller Plaza without coat or hat, Toscanini caught a cold. He insisted, despite a fever, on conducting his Sunday broadcast. Against his wishes, a doctor was called, and bundled the Maestro into bed. The doctor made Toscanini cancel...
But none of this was assurance that she would walk again. She was getting every medical attention. In the weeks since her accident, General Graham had discussed her case with the Mayo Clinic and with more than a score of other physicians all over the U.S. As she chatted with...