Word: deadness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the first ten months of the year, the man who had taken over the Post when it was a little paste-up literary journal* and by 1912 made it the biggest general magazine on earth had been in complete retirement. For the last two months he had been dead. The evidence therefore indicated that his professional heirs had done well...
Declared Legally Dead. Paul Redfern, aviator, who disappeared ten years ago, after taking off from Brunswick, Ga., to fly to Rio de Janeiro; by a Michigan circuit court judge in Detroit, at the appeal of his widow. Visionary travelers have reported his survival as "a god that fell from the sky" in Brazil, as a crippled "medicine man" in Dutch Guiana...
...taken in burning Nanking before the cameramen boarded the Panay. It shows a Chinese woman, one child in her arms, another tugging at her from behind, squatting beside a corpse, her crinkle-faced, open-mouthed misery oblivious of the camera as again & again she picks up and drops the dead hand of her husband...
...spilled much wind from the sails of the cohesion theorists, by announcing that he had found enormous pressures in the roots of tomato plants-pressures high enough to serve tomato plants hundreds of feet tall. The trouble with previous pressure experiments, it appeared, was that they were made on dead or dying roots. At Princeton, Dr. White has an apparatus which keeps detached roots alive indefinitely by supplying them with nutrient fluid. When he attached glass tubes carrying columns of mercury to his tomato roots, the mercury went up until it indicated a pressure of more than eight atmospheres...
...pleasantness was not the idea. The mists & veils of Denishawn soon gave way to High Priestess Martha Graham's surrealistic fence-act. Frontier, and to stylized swaying and leaping by dead-pan Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol...