Word: dead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
...persons holding funerals could turn on their radios and receive appropriate mortuary music, would it not enhance services for the dead? A fixed hour might be set for the nationwide broadcasting of funeral music and nationwide funerals might be timed accordingly. A resolution urging such procedure was introduced at a meeting of the New Jersey State Funeral Directors' Association, held last week in Camden, by John S. Martin, mortician, delegate from Elizabeth...
When white-lipped "Saint Maggie" risked a closure vote, bellowing John Wheately rushed into the Opposition lobby ahead of the Conservatives themselves, took with him other Clydesiders-fiery Jimmy Maxton, carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged over for a tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like...
...proceeded to conquer all China (TIME, April 5, 1926, et seq.). Last week General Ho Ying-ching, whom President Chiang had sent to defend Canton, found himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above. The corpses were searched for cartridges and small arms, General Ho paying a flat rate of $10 for every pistol or hundred cartridges recovered. "Some peasants are making $100 a day," cabled a U. S. eyewitness...
...Kerryville, Tex., one Hugh Day climbed a tree, imitated turkey calls to lure the birds within range of his gun. Fooled, another huntsman approached and shot Mr. Day dead...