Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all other defendants dead, missing or pleading guilty, Jimmy Hines stood spotlighted alone. Well aware that crusading district attorney heroes are always elected to higher office, he said to reporters -nonchalantly lighting a cigaret-"This is a political battle. I know because I've been in political battles before...
...film covering the newborn] has disappeared! Unless one has witnessed the phenomenon, this miracle does not seem possible. It would appear that if this greasy, slimy, newborn infant, who looks as if he had been rescued from a sewer, were not immediately cleaned up, he would smell like a dead fish in 24 hours. What a contrast to behold him a few hours later looking fresh and clean...
...York Journal and American printed a lengthy obituary on fun-loving old Author Logan Pearsall Smith (Trivia, More Trivia, All Trivia, Re-perusals and Re-collections). So did the New York Times in its early editions. Both newspapers later announced that Author Smith was not dead at all. Explanation: from publishers Little, Brown & Co. in Boston had come false reports of the death of Mr. Smith, recovering from pneumonia in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...
Thirty years later Maurice Hindus went back to Mount Brookville. Most of his friends were dead, the fine stands of pine and cedar were logged off, the best farms had gone to wrack, the farmers were getting 3? a quart for milk and were grumbling like Russians. The U. S., said Maurice Hindus, had an agricultural problem...