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Word: deadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sadistic tone is set. In another story Mrs. Perrington, a heavy woman with an asthmatic nose, falls dead of a heart attack. "You can tell she's dead because her nose has stopped bleeding...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Joker's Motley Garb | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

Stewart also contributes the only creative work of the issue, a sort of opium illusion called "A Mango For Emelina." Magnolia-mashed Colonel Ashcroft ("a memento of a dead nation's long ago Armageddon") stalks to a garden rendezvous with his boyhood love, Emelina. As he bends to kiss...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Joker's Motley Garb | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

...Advocate Poet Series may not occur this year because all the alumni poets who haven't given the series are dead," A. Whitney Ellsworth '58, president, revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Advocate' Runs Out Of Poetic Graduates | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...immediate reaction to the Harvard community was dislike. In his classmates especially, with the ex- ception of the tortured, in-grown, dead and beautiful Starwick, he found the stoniness, the apathy, the lifeless wit which characterized the Harvard literati...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...discovers to his horror that there is more to the job than wearing a tin star. The story develops as the oldtimer, much against his will, is drawn by sympathy into an attempt to teach the young comer how to be a proper lawman-before he becomes a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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