Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Three weeks ago I received a handwritten death sentence by mail. I learned just today that this death sentence bears the secret sign of the Freemasons' Lodge of the Rising Sun. This is an answer to my exposure of the Masons' criminal acts in my book on the instigation of...
Machinal. It is related that Sophie Treadwell, author of Machinal and in private life the wife of Sports-Columnist W. O. McGeehan, witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which...
The Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two...
Naomi and Joe are forbidden to "keep company," but they meet by the starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she...
Last week the Sovereign of Liechtenstein, Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Trappau et de Jägerndorf, lord of vast estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and owner of the famed Art Gallery in Vienna which bears his name, decided that it was time for...