Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passer-by saved her. Once again Denise tried to please her lover, but the current washed her child safe ashore out of the river. Jacques threatened to leave. Desperate at last, Denise plunged her baby head first into a zinc washtub and held her there until she was dead. Then she telegraphed Jacques. "It takes courage," Jacques told a friend in admiration, "to kill your own daughter." The police were less enthusiastic...
...finished speaking when violence broke out again, this time in the pleasant little town of Kalka, among the mountain foothills of Simla. There, police, frightened and outnumbered by an attacking mob of 1,500 people armed with stones and bottles, fired point-blank into the crowd. The toll: five dead, a score critically injured...
...Greek town, weaving his way home late at night from a party, thinks himself attacked on his doorstep .by three footpads, and stabs them all. The next morning, badly hung over, he is dragged before the townspeople and accused of murder by the wailing widows and orphans of the dead. While the audience screams for his head, the terrified stranger is forced to draw back the blanket covering the corpses-and discovers that his "victims" were nothing more than three inflated wineskins that had been tied to his doorpost. Everyone but the stranger has a good chuckle as he learns...
Dwarfs into Sausage. Dwarfs mated to dwarfs produce all dwarfs, but although dwarfs are potentially fertile, they rarely reach breeding age. Many are born dead or die soon after birth. Those that live to maturity grow about half the size of normal beef cattle. They wheeze and stagger; their bellies swell, and they often die of bloat. Dwarf beef is of poor quality. Most dwarfs that go to market are ground into sausage...
...uncomfortably sporadic and Vernon Duke's show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There are two or three entertaining skits, but the bulk of them are either dead on arrival or let their lifeblood ebb away...