Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hogs on ice are independent: 1) if dead, because they don't care; 2) if alive, because they are hypnotized by their immobility...
...extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head of the Monarchist organization Renovatión Española. He had been taken from his Madrid apartment by uniformed Assault Guards of the Spanish Government, delivered dead to a cemetery caretaker. Sensing a big story, knowing that armed guards were patrolling Spanish cities, newshawks in Paris woke up string correspondents along the Spanish border, put in a call to Oran, in French Morocco. At 1:30 a. m. Madrid suddenly came through with a seven-word official...
...alien carpenter innocent. Recently Mrs. Spencer split with her doctor-husband and he went to live with their older daughter, Mrs. Mary Belle Wright, 19. Last week, shy little Dr. Spencer died, and his wife again made news. Marching to her daughter's home, she demanded the dead man's clothes. When she refused to leave they took her off to jail. When she got out of jail she had his body moved three times before she could make up her mind to hold the funeral at home. Then she invited her daughter to come, promising that "everything...
...Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. subsidiary extended a 20-inch natural gas pipe line originating in Kentucky to the outskirts of Coatesville. There it came to a dead end at Poor House Road, 31 miles from Lukens' plant. Philadelphia Electric Co., which holds a franchise to distribute gas in Coatesville, was reported to have wanted to charge Lukens some $100,000 annually as commission for linking it to the Columbia pipe line. After several years of political fencing, Columbia's subsidiary this year dug in for a finish fight with the State's powerful coal interests, who were...
...mornings later, after the mourners had shot off fireworks, got drunk, said how beautiful the dead boy looked, the body had hideously decomposed. A violin and a guitar played mournfully It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as they started in procession. At the cemetery the drunken schoolmaster, pronouncing a funeral oration, fell into the grave. Nobody laughed. A row of buzzards sat on the fence like undertakers. The violin and the guitar played Yes, We Have No Bananas...