Word: dead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public acts and motives of the illustrious dead properly belong to posterity. . . . I herewith present my testimony in disproof of the charge of Professor Pitkin's anonymous informant and of the Professor's pseudo-psychological deductions...
...Telephone and electric lines were blown down, otherwise there was little damage. Floridans began to call the hurricane a second-rater, when from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, came delayed reports : Most destructive hurricane in Bahamian history. . . . Wracked Nassau for two days. . . . Velocity of gusts 180 miles. . . . Eight known dead. . . . Enormous destruction of property and shipping. . . . Only a few ships afloat. . . . No building escaped injury. . . . Sea wall broken, city flooded...
...eased his rheumatic limbs into bed, fell immediately and heavily to sleep. Waking suddenly in the night, he summoned the house boy who roused the Baron's family. To them the Baron quietly announced that he felt "very sick," clutched at his heart, collapsed. Before dawn he was dead...
Four thousand dead Moslems could cover a U. S. football field with corpses three deep. A field outside the walls of a city in China's most inland province was so covered one day last August. News, apparently authentic, came last week to modernized Hankow from missionaries...
Subway Express. If a police inspector be summoned aboard a subway train and told that a man has been shot dead, it may well give him pause. If a medical examiner gets on a few stations down the line and declares that the killing resulted not from shooting but from electrocution a few moments beforehand, the inspector may well be dumbfounded. If the car lights are suddenly extinguished and a likely witness is riddled with bullets, the inspector may even be pardoned for surrendering his badge...