Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world was glimpsing the sickening possibility of defeat. Fat effendis in tasseled tarbooshes and doublebreasted business suits were streaming from Jerusalem in new American sedans that swayed under the load of rolled-up Turkish rugs and bundled household goods. Their escape route led past Gethsemane and Bethany to the Dead Sea, through Jericho, across the shallow Jordan by Allenby Bridge to Arab Trans-Jordan; then, past caravans of sneering camels, to the crowded, expensive hotels of Damascus and Beirut...
...hours later, he was dead of a brain hemorrhage...
...float the issue, the stockmarket was falling and so was K-F stock. Eaton called off the sale. Witnesses before SEC said they heard him say: "We would be just damned fools to go through with this deal ... I would rather have a lawsuit on my hands than be dead broke." Eaton's own lawyer testified: Eaton had asked him if there was any escape clause in the underwriting contract with K-F. Eaton reportedly said he was going over it with a "fine-tooth comb" to look for an out. (An out developed the following Monday when...
Something was left out of the account, however. It is easy to imagine the Henry James so pictured as a mildly comic figure in London drawing rooms, but it is impossible to imagine such an individual writing The Beast in the Jungle or The Altar of the Dead. Author Nowell-Smith has traced through their mutations several of the famous inane or incredibly affected remarks attributed to James, by various writers, pointing to an unmistakable conclusion: they were apocryphal. James was a character. Anecdotes were attributed to him, the way jokes about monosyllabic New Englanders were attributed to Calvin Coolidge...
...Polly's dead-heat companion was Carmen Ogden, and as Gardner and the winning girls posed for sleepy camera men, a benevoleut sun gave the colorful annual classic one of its first pleasant days in many years of hoop rolling...