Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many thousands of us, your readers, are over 83 and resent the suggestion that we are dead or better dead. . . . Beginning tomorrow, I intend to picket TIME with a board saying "TIME is Unfair to Octogenarians...
...Earl Durand's supper to his cell, the huge, hairy youth picked him up like a puppy, took his keys, grabbed a rifle, forced the deputy to drive him to the Durand ranch. Under-Sheriff D. M. Baker and Marshal Charles E. Lewis followed. Earl Durand dropped them dead in their tracks with just three shots from his rifle, one wasted. Then he clubbed Deputy Riley unconscious, made his father put up provisions, headed for the snowy mountains...
...invaded barracks to disarm one of the best-equipped armies in Europe, and began to arrest political prisoners from a list of over 2,000. Residents were ordered to fly swastika flags which had been systematically distributed a few days before (ostensibly for the annual memorial to German War dead...
...long before he got too paunchy to slide into a cockpit, served as a commercial pilot in Sweden, offered to make Sweden a present of a new, fully-equipped air-ambulance worth 450,000 crowns ($108,000). The plane was to be named for Göring's dead first wife Karin, sister of the wife of a Swede named Dr. Nils Silfversköld (Silver Shield...
...14th-Century Italy, public dissections were held in university halls and were occasions for great festivity. In the 16th Century, British surgeons were legally allowed to dissect dead bodies. Edinburgh surgeons were granted "ane condampnit [condemned] man after he be deid." But by the 18th Century, corpses were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected...