Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, more than 800,000 mourners had filed into Turin's rococo Palazzo Madama, past coffins that held the remains of Italy's greatest team. Sobbed nine-year-old Luigi Foschi: "The champions are dead. What shall...
...many districts of the country. On election night its partisans tangled with pro-Hertzog paraders under the lampposts in La Paz' Plaza Murillo, where Villaroel had been hanged. By the time the government got things in hand (Hertzog declared a sixth state of siege), eleven Bolivians were dead, 81 injured...
...five years from a gangling kid to something of an Amazon (circ. 1,000,000). Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Valentine, with an editorial staff of 50 girls and one man (Edwin Miller, the 27 -year-old bachelor movie editor) have turned Seventeen into a moneymaking monthly by taking dead aim on teen-age readers (average...
...lesson seemed obvious: in art, as elsewhere, imitation is dull sport. The hundreds of suckling surrealists who had aped De Chirico's youthful work had accomplished very little. And when De Chirico himself took to imitating Rubens, and other long-dead masters, such as 17th Century Romantic Salvator Rosa, his own highly personal painting went...
...George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead but, at the same time, threatened with "convulsions" at the sight of the living. He nearly blew himself apart with simultaneous spasms of misery and hilarity...