Word: dead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knox was arrested on the charge of forging her mother's endorsement to pension checks, but she refused to believe her mother was dead, could not explain the whereabouts of Sumner Knox. When a State detective tried to snatch a letter from her, powerful Mrs. Knox jerked his arm so hard that she broke a knitting fracture in his neck. Her lawyer announced: "She wants the public to feel that she is at least halfway human-not at all the monster that idle rumor has made...
Favorite guerrilla tale is that of 24 Chinese who, caught in Pingchüan when the Japanese entered the city, donned the blood-stained uniforms of dead Japanese, walked out of the city unmolested. This trick sometimes boomerangs. Recently 8th Route Army General Lin Piao, regarded as the ablest Chinese strategist now in the field, returned from a raid with 600 of his men who were dressed as Japanese, mounted on Japanese horses. Their own guerrillas ambushed them, wounded a number, including General Lin, before their identity was established...
...June 30, 1938, according to a bulletin recently issued by the International Typographical Union, 320 new dailies started in the U. S., 319 were suspended. Most of the new papers were born in places like Goose Creek. Texas, Aliquippa, Pa. and Lead, S. D. The dead included such sizable city dailies as the New York American, Toledo News-Bee, Rochester Journal, St. Paul News...
...vein of the Negro standing before him. Then he moved down the line, gave injections to the next four patients. As he poised a needle above the sixth arm, the Negro fell to the floor in convulsions. Just as he sobbed his last breath, the woman behind him dropped dead...
...title of Kaufman & Hart's The Fabulous Invalid refers to the theatre, always said to be dying, never quite dead. But so many people have avoided the show, thinking it a "morbid" play laid in a sickroom, that it is now conspicuously subtitled "A Cavalcade of the Theatre...