Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teasing and dramatic is Vane's first-act picture of men & women wandering in & out of the smoking room of an ocean liner, some of them not sure why they have embarked, others puzzled about their destination until one of them grasps the fact that they are all dead. Still vivid, if over-typical, are the people themselves: the drunkard (Bramwell Fletcher), the charwoman (Laurette Taylor), the clergyman, the snob, the businessman, the young couple who have killed themselves for love. Still troubling are these people's confusions, hopes and fears as the voyage nears...
With Musica-Coster the impostor dead & buried, a few plain facts about his twelve-year reign and rape of McKesson & Robbins made news last week. It seemed apparent: 1) that the company's $18,000,000 of missing assets would not be found in munitions or anything else because they had never existed in the first place; 2) that they had been written up on the books to keep the company apparently prosperous while Coster swindled it out of $4,000,000; 3) that much of his booty went for blackmail. Revealed by one or another of the various...
...festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas night the dead were counted at 80, the wounded...
Three students were among the 59 dead, 15 of them among 66 wounded and dying...
...obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled all 14 coaches down the slope. Toll: according to press reports, 40 dead, 51 injured; according to the Mexican Railway, four or five dead, 30 injured...