Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which has an all-colored cast, is laid in the region of a Firbankian Haiti. It tells how members of a backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman...
...doubted that the Buzzards Bay crash involved Moses, because it had occurred at about 4:50 p.m. But the Sunapee crash came at about 6 p.m., late enough for Moses to have arrived in the area, had he strayed off his course...
...easel on which was displayed one of the last cartoons Helen Hokinson had drawn, a gift to the fund drive. The caption ("So Mary's working for the Community Chest too. How brave!") seemed an oddly suitable epitaph for Cartoonist Hokinson, who had died in the worst crash in U.S. airline history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Michael Joseph Kennedy, 52, veteran Tammany wheelhorse; in an airplane crash; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A onetime Democratic Representative from New York (1938-42), Kennedy became Tammany sachem in 1942, was ousted two years later after bigtime Gambler Frank Costello admitted that he had used money and influence to swing Kennedy's appointment...
Died. Henry L. Straus, 53, president of Tropical Park race track since 1941; in a private-plane crash; near Port Deposit, Md. Turfman Straus made a fortune in royalties out of his invention, the American totalizator, a complicated (1,500,000 moving parts) electrical device which automatically calculates the odds in pari-mutuel betting...