Word: deadness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then they held up Donald Moss, a young textile worker, for his car. When Moss was slow giving it up, Godwin shot him dead. Then they drove into the night, hid in a barn near Hickory...
...murderous Arab-Jewish dispute over Palestine in the past ten weeks has left 1,700 Arabs, Jews, British soldiers and police dead or wounded. Into this bloody mess last week stepped the figure of Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi, Foreign Minister of Iraq. Invited to London by the British, Seyyid Tawfik conferred last week with the only Jew in the Chamberlain Cabinet, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, and with Scottish Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald. Seyyid Tawfik then proffered a plan. Ignoring Britain's original idea of partition, he proposed that Palestine be set up as an independent state under British...
...Airport, at the start of one evening's rush hour, suddenly went black. A main supply cable of the Commonwealth Edison Company had failed. Due between seven and nine were a dozen planes, 100 passengers. Unable to warn them because the airport's 14 radio transmitters were dead, quick-thinking operations men dashed to ships still on the ground, flashed the word aloft over battery-run airliner radios...
...theatre's great days give the authors a chance to bring back scenes from a host of famous shows, from The Easiest Way and The Pink Lady to What Price Glory? and The Vortex. Every so often the pageant is halted because the theatre is rumored dead of various causes: Roosevelt I, the automobile, the war-tax, the movies, the radio, Roosevelt...
They have a young actor and actress die backstage on the first night of the Alexandria's career, and thereafter these two -along with another dead actor-appear as ghosts, whisper from the wings, declaim before the footlights, bob up in boxes, feverishly exhorting the theatre -their theatre-not to die. In Act I this disembodied trio communes with Shakespeare, in Act II with...