Word: dead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Earthquake of 1923 and the 33rd anniversary of the Typhoon of 1905, the Empire was smitten by a no less violent typhoon which whirled through the neighboring cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, blew millions of tons of seawater over the breakwaters and into these cities. The dead numbered 99, thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump of ancient willow trees near the moat of the Imperial Palace of their Divine Emperor...
...Meadow, holding 100,000 spectators. And pending the completion of the Nazi Congress Hall, world's largest (40,000 seats). Orator Hitler was to speak to 10,000 sitters and 20,000 standees in Luitpold Hall. Also on schedule was the annual early morning service for the Party dead in the Luitpold Arena, a Youth Rally in the Old Stadium. A Labor Service drill of 45,000. a search-lit demonstration of 110,000 political leaders and all-day war games would wear down the grass of the Zeppelin Meadow. Hitler writes but a henchman reads the Fuhrer...
...Bloomington, Ind., three years ago, little Clifford Cain playfully pointed his father's gun at his mother, pulled the trigger, shot her dead. Last week, as 8-year-old Clifford and his brother Robert, 10, were playing with the same gun, Robert playfully shot Clifford dead...
...magazine: Crime Detective for October; in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. The banners: Hennepin County Attorney Ed Goff and Ramsey County Attorney Michael Kinkead. Authority: State "anti-defamatory" statute protecting the mem ory of dead men. Reason: an article, "Murder in Minneapolis," by Edith Liggett, widow of crusading Editor Walter W. Liggett, murdered in Minneapolis Dec. 9, 1935, in which the late Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota is attacked. Also attacked by Mrs. Liggett: County Attorney Goff, now running for reelection, and other Minneapolis politicians. Widow Liggett, 37, now lives in Manhattan, supports her son and daughter by writing...
...word without a meaning is a dead word, a corrupt word. . . . Let us write that word in large black letters on a sheet of foolscap; then solemnly apply a match to the paper. . . . Now let us bray the ashes in a mortar with a goose-feather pen, and declare in unison singing together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises...