Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dead or alive, Andrés Nin was the focus of the Barcelona trial last week, just as Leon Trotsky was the focus of the Moscow trial after which 16 Trotskyists were executed (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936). In the prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make...
...Yankee Fable" is labeled as "comedy," but in five minutes a dead weight falls on the audience which only a double Scotch can budge...
...starchy, Georgian, richly-endowed Addison Gallery of American Art was the first comprehensive exhibition in New England of paintings by the late Maurice Prendergast and his brother, Charles, now 70. The Prendergasts were Boston boys whom Boston never bothered to honor. But since Impressionist Maurice has been dead for 14 years with an international reputation, home-town honors seemed at least timely to Mr. Dooley and once again, he had observed sadly, "the show that Boston should have had is being held elsewhere." Initiator of the exhibition was urbane and eminent Critic Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England...
...football kicking, tutor of Notre Dame's Frank Carideo, Columbia's Cliff Montgomery, Yale's Dave Colwell; of a heart attack suffered on University Field, Princeton, N. J. Less than a month before, William B. Lynch, Princeton fullback, expert dropkicker, Mills's pupil, dropped dead of a heart attack on the same field...
...expected anything from me for their many courtesies." Informed of her good fortune, pretty Mrs. Kniskern was too dazed to speak. Said William Reilly, now a $52-a-month hospital attendant whose luck has grown steadily worse: "Now that I'm a capitalist, I hope this Hitler drops dead." Reward In Cincinnati, the Traffic Safety Council decided to reward motorists who perform outstanding acts of courtesy and consideration. The reward (to be given each week to the city's most courteous motorists) : an orchid...