Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger son-rather uncon-incingly-commits suicide in protest; his elder son (Burt Lancaster) returns home to ferret out his secret. The father becomes at last fully aware of the dimensions of his crime and of the shallowness of his excuses. Among the lesser plot problems: will the dead boy's mother (Mady Christians) ever accept the fact of his death...
Suffolk University should have been a dead pigeon for the Varsity baseball team. But a complete fielding collapse in the eighth inning and a persistent inability to hit solidly set up a 5 to 4 loss yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field...
...week's end, chances of the U.S. being one of the two looked doubtful. Said one GOP leader: "It is dead and going to stay dead. The word has gone out to that effect . . . there are some members who don't want to get mixed up with Russia in that kind of a deal." Public health men were indignantly reminding Congressmen that cholera germs do not respect national boundaries, or even iron curtains...
...exhibition traced Matisse's wavering, laborious progression from his early copy of a dead fish by Chardin, gleaming in mahogany darkness, to the abstract paper cutouts, brighter than circus posters, which he makes nowadays. Advancing room by room, visitors saw that Matisse had put increasing kick in his colors and bite in his outlines as he grew older...
...eight-year-old tabloid PM, Manhattan's youngest newspaper, was still dying last week - but not quite dead. At the last minute Owner Marshall Field gave PM a two-week reprieve. He still hadn't found anyone to buy it (PM is losing $15,000 a week, and its circulation is falling), but there had been "a number of nibbles...