Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 150° F. in the "treatment cells, bedlam raged. Tearing their clothes off, gasping for breath, the tortured men roared and screamed for hours. When guards came with breakfast the third day, they found 21 of the prisoners unconscious, four (two in each of two cells) dead on the floor-bruised, gouged, discolored, parboiled...
...center, placed third with 8 per cent as a choice for profitable occupation, while music finished just out of the money at 7 per cent in a photo finish over managing, which had 6 1-2 per cent devotes. The Student Union, political forum, debating, and dramatics ran a dead heat at 4 per cent...
...Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!" Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless, that at Ajaccio in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, an oration in honor of the first Bonaparte was pronounced by Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, who then unveiled a monument to L'Empereur...
LAMENT FOR A MAKER-Michael Innes -Dodd, Mead ($2). A poet-madman, lord of gloomy Castle Erchany, is found dead at the foot of his castle tower. Ingenious plot; scholarly, leisurely style; copious Scottish dialect...
...rang. The Argentine Government, said a spokesman calling from Buenos Aires, wished to call off the deal; "market conditions" were deemed unsatisfactory. Beyond that neither underwriters nor Government had anything to add. Henry S. Morgan, second son of Banker J. P., simply said: ''It is now a dead cock...