Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, an Army B-29 crashed and burned a few hundred feet from the granite summit of Hawks Mountain, Vt. Dead: twelve...
Courtship. Dirty water from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...
...Gruening took time out to marry Dorothy Elizabeth Smith of Norwood, Mass. Of their three sons one, Ernest, is dead...
...already cutting back production. Yet they had managed to keep wholesale prices up, except on poor or little-known brands. With Scotch prices down, it looked as if the domestic whiskies were next. Distillers feared that a price war-of the proportions of 1936-38 and 1940-41-was dead ahead. Consumers hoped...
...ashore, half-dead, at Norfolk, the emigres found themselves in a swampy, slave-owning country where Negroes were "held in a state of debasement which astounds even the inhabitants of the [French] colonies." While noting that "nowhere does the English language have such sweetness and charm as on the lips of a pretty Virginian," Moreau found nothing pretty in the character of Virginia men, who "cultivated extremely long fingernails, with which to scratch out the eyes of those with whom they fight...