Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would do for the feast of Bairam during the next three days. Among their number, however, was one young sepoy who, half-crazed through abstention, ran amuck during the night. He forced his way into the tent of the battalion's major, with his rifle shot the major dead in his sleep. Aroused, five other officers-three British and two Indian-rushed to the scene. Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang,-the sepoy killed all five. The rest of the battalion, believing the fierce Pathans were on the warpath, hastily took up "stand-to" positions around the camp...
...wailed throughout the night as they waited in long lines to identify members of their families. Others insisted upon going into the deep slime, hoping to rescue imbedded relatives. With hundreds of acres of land destroyed, thousands made homeless, St. Lucia next day counted its casualties: at least 250 dead, many more missing. The British Windward Islands administration, with headquarters at St. George's Grenada, faced its greatest relief problem...
...first impression of many a newsreader last week was that poor little Shirley Temple was fried to a crisp; that Madeleine Carroll was dead-not by the bullet of a rival spy, but by incineration; that nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...
...rapidly as his legs can move) and the single-stroker (who waits for an opening, then knocks out his opponent with a well-placed stab). Some matches are over in five seconds, others last 45 minutes; but a really game cock never quits until he can crow over his dead opponent-or is dead himself...
...contest between the best team of the Pacific Coast Conference and any other team in the country that the Conference's choice chooses to invite. Last week when Southern California trounced the University of California at Los Angeles, 42-to-7, it finished its Conference season in a dead heat with the University of California-six victories and one defeat apiece. But, since Southern California had roundly whipped California when they met four weeks ago, the Conference selection committee picked U. S. C.* represent the West Coast...