Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefellers' Manhattan press-agents set up a conference at the Guests' palatial home to appease the clamoring press. Bobo said: "I love him very much." She talked about her early life, said that her father was dead (she was misinformed-he was mining coal in Washington, Pa.) and showed reporters her engagement ring, a 1½-carat, square-cut diamond, set in platinum. Winthrop parried newsmen's thrusts with wit and a bridegroom's smile...
...Crankley was unhappy even as a father. Of his seven children, one was born dead, four others died before him. When Marx's daughter Franziska died of bronchitis, there was no money to buy a coffin. "Her little lifeless body rested in the small back room," related Jenny Marx. "We all moved together into the front room and when night came we made up beds on the floor." (A fellow refugee finally lent the Marxes ?2 for the coffin...
...second big speech in two weeks for Kim. The week before, he had called Korean Communists to action: "Among our party members there must be no leisurely and luxurious life. We must be so active that we feel dead if we have no work to do." In U.S.-occupied South Korea, Kim's followers responded promptly. A brass band turned up playing the Internationale in the South Korean dock town of Pusan. Rail and telegraph lines were cut. One twelve-car train was wrecked, and 50 locomotives were put out of action by saboteurs. In scattered clashes with South...
...Oops another sarter," said the svelte Smith coed as she heard a suspicious snap beneath her ski pants at the Darmouth winter carnival after negotiating Dead Man's Leap and landing in an undignified posture in Horror Gulch...
...movie, the mother (Kasia Orzazewski) has scrubbed floors and half-starved herself during those years to raise $5,000 which she hopes might persuade someone into giving new information about the old, dead case. When the reporter (James Stewart) first looks her up, he has no doubts of her son's (Richard Conte) guilt; he merely plays her story for its human interest. It is good "circulation copy" and he follows it up industriously. But soon he begins to smell something fishy...