Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the animals of other people and commenting enthusiastically on the good points of their own. During the summer they live in tourist camps and see the world. Once a year, on May 1. they get together just outside of Nashville for the festive Irish purpose of burying their dead...
...doctor saw that the man was almost dead from a complete fracture of the left lower leg and from loss of blood through many lacerations. To get to his patient, 5-ft. 11-in., 200-lb. Dr. Wassermann had to walk along a steel girder, eight inches wide, atop the 16-story shaft. On that dizzying perch he had to amputate the leg, disentangle the man from the cables...
...year to support a Korean Presbyterian Church with 100,000 members. The Japanese Government feels less sure of Koreans than it does of Japanese, worries more about their exposure to Occidental influences. Increasingly in the past five years, beginning when Shinto services were held for soldiers dead in China and Manchukuo, the Government has put pressure upon Korean Christians to join in what it calls "patriotic" ceremonies at Shinto shrines. Christian teachers have been ordered to take their Christian classes to the shrines, join in observances which involve obeisance to the departed. Last straw came when Korean Presbyterian churches were...
...Building and Common Laborers' Union of America found himself unable to get back $47.000 of his own money and $64.000 of union money. Just before Hod Carrier Moreschi complained to State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney last fortnight. Hoagland & Allum Vice President Russell W. Brown was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. The three surviving officers. President George F. Allum, Vice President Olaf Andrew Larsen and Secretary & Treasurer Henry Adolph Engel, went to jail for lack of bail. Few days later the Chicago Stock Exchange took the unprecedented step of advertising "An Open Letter...
When a writer is dead, his admirers feel that at least he is now safe: there will be no senile juvenilia from him. Then comes the literary executor. And the executor publishes more, and more, and more posthumous stuff, each batch a little feebler than the last. Such was the case with Katherine Mansfield; such is now the case with A. E. Housman. Admirers of Housman who have to sit helplessly by while his brother Laurence continues his well-meaning but damaging publications may well feel that the line from A Shropshire...