Word: dead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's power irrevocably dead? Administration men had said it would be, until toward the eleventh hour they produced an opinion from Attorney General Murphy stating that the power might legally rise again, after lapsing, should the Senate pass this money bill later on. Until a weary hour Senators debated this point, finally agreeing to vote on the bill this week...
Among 28 paupers in the Wetzel County, W. Va. Infirmary at New Martinsville were Alex Wilson, 75, and Nicholas Barcus, 74, friends since boyhood. Last week Nick was dead of a fractured skull and Alex in jail, charged with murder. Said Alex Wilson: "Nick and me, we never had any trouble. ... It was all over a little argument about Nick locking the door. He came up with a cane and said whoever said he locked the door was a liar. And I shouted back to him that he did lock it. Then he swung his cane...
...straight, apparently unhurt, with his wife slumped across his lap. Then blood ran from his mouth, dark stains appeared on the collar of his green uniform, he crumpled up. Then they hastily drove Franz Ferdinand and Sophie to the Governor's residence just across the river. Both were dead before a doctor or a priest could reach them...
...bustling Waring organization occupies a full floor on Broadway, where Fred holds sway like a master of ceremonies. Only other active member of the original four is Poley McClintock, who more than any other member has made the Waring band memorable, by his froggy-voiced interpolations. Fred Buck is dead. Tom Waring is still considered one of the gang but spends most of his time practicing for a debut as a concert baritone. Fred directs production, helps write continuity, coaches the gang in rehearsal ("come lively," "stay with me," "give it rapture!"), plays golf in the 705 as his main...
...genius for selling books-any book. When a publisher has done all he knows how and still has copies on hand, he sends for Max Salop to come and get the remainders. Within the next few months Max Salop has sold not only the publisher's dead stocks, but has reprinted maybe 5,000, 10.000, 20,000 copies besides...