Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michel Courtois. Three weeks ago they found them 95 miles north of Roberval. Thirteen-year-old Michel, his hair matted, his face aged and seamed from privation, crouched over an iron bucket in which he had kept a fire burning for two months. Nineteen-year-old Réné, dead since July, lay beside him, a moldering skeleton...
Richthofen: The Red Knight of the Air (German). Few stories of the War are better fitted to make a movie than the story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen who shot down more than 80 Allied aviators and was found one day between the hostile lines before Amiens sitting dead in his plane which he had guided to a perfect landing.* The material is still open for treatment as nothing much is done with it in this picture. Instead of using what is really known about Richthofen: his innate love of the chase, his early cavalry training, his duel with...
Betty Jean was born on a desert mountain in Argentine. The past three years she has played in the dead crater of an African mountain, Mount Brukkaros, near Keetmanshoop, South West Africa. Living there was necessary, for her father's job, and Mr. Greeley's, was to measure the sun's heat every day. That was to enable a Dr. Abbot (Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where...
Capt. John W. Dillin. of Media, Pa., scorning modern small arms, shot his matches with a flintlock rifle made in 1763, notched for dead Indians...
...State Prison at Windsor, Ontario, Clarence Adams played dead by self-hypnotism, a friend "embalmed" him, accomplices outside got the coffin, released...