Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider your article a libelous one but if you desire to square this misstatement and follow out an old-time saying that "it is better to send flowers to the living than to the dead," then send me a box of Princeton's orange colored chrysanthemums. Finally may I suggest that you give equal publicity to the "resurrection" as you did to the "demise...
Twice recently I have heard the story which seems to be going the rounds that our Government is paying an exorbitant rental for the land where our World War dead are buried in France. If the rent is not paid promptly, so the story goes, France has threatened to get rid of the bodies by the use of quicklime...
...talk about the munition industry dragging this country into war is incredible fiction. . . .This country went into the World War to vindicate its rights on the high seas, and now to relinquish these rights through fear of Hitlerism is to dishonor our dead. . . . The proposition is utterly destitute of courage and moral sense. . . . One of my sons was gassed and the other was a combatant soldier. . . . But a nation without spirit or an elevated soul is as bad as a derelict on the seas. . . . This country should not be content simply to eat and sleep and go to the movies...
Starlings have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call...
...stained stones kissed by the English dead...