Word: deadman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead-Man Formation. How could five planes vanish without one of them getting off an intelligible radio signal? Had one driven the rest of a wing-to-wing, "deadman formation" into a mass collision...
...Brahmin." Pastoral simplicities like Seldom Seen, Possum Glory, Chicken Bristle, Hog Eye, Ticklenaked, Pokamoonshine, Stop-theJade, Bug Tussel and Pennsylvania's neighboring Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything. Except for Germania and Swastika, not a single U.S. town has shed its German name. All four Tokyos have survived, showing, says Author Stewart, "that the state of mind seems...
Last week, near their cabin on Deadman's Creek, the bodies of two trapper-partners, Eugene Messmer, 33, and Hans Pfeuffer, 43, were found, lying in slushy surface ice. Both had been shot in the back. Guns, supplies and an estimated $4,000 worth of furs were missing...
...Soon he earned enough money to rent out theatrical costumes and furnishings. Something of a wit in his coarse way, he began editing plays for production, soon became a play agent, buying and renting the works of others. On the side he kept a brothel: "In his tavern in Deadman's Lane, sub-leased to Widow Lee, Will Shakspere . . . created . . . a roistering hubbub." His "broken, almost falsetto voice" became a feature of London life. His "fat body" was soon "taxed by excesses." Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby...