Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dutiful Czech police scattered the crowd, arresting several. Later a band of students surrounded a earful of Schutzstaffel officers and threatened them. The officers drew their pistols and fired into the air. When the day was over reports seeped even through the censor's office that four were dead, scores injured, thousands arrested...
...Britain's first soldier dead in action in France was reported: William Roper, 28, of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, killed on volunteer guard duty...
...went for a ride in a tank across terrain which he quickly recognized. "In this very field once lay the dead bodies of German soldiers. A short distance away was a small hill where one morning I had seen a cavalry charge in a snowstorm. Now it was occupied by some of our mechanized troops who had never heard of that fight and stared at me when I told them about it as though incredulous...
...Barrymore-sometimes ill, sometimes tight, but always a trouper. Many a night he has rolled to the theatre, not sure of his legs, not sure of his lines, but certain that he could put on a good show of some sort. "Yep," says the doorman, "he arrives every night, dead or alive...
Last week Director Michael Chekhov, nephew of famed Playwright Anton Chekhov, offered a dramatization of Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Probably the worst of all attempts to put Dostoevsky on the stage, it reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps. One grotesque, blighted scene followed another. The hero Stavrogin-one of the most astounding characters in fiction-became any confused young intellectual seeking an answer to life. The answer itself was pared down to a kind of Dos-toevsky-for-Tots...