Word: death
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...degree of Ph.D. by Columbia University and became Curator of the Department of Antiquities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He taught at the Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1908 to 1922 was Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Harvard. From 1922 to his death he held the Hancock professorship, which is one of the oldest in the University. He is best known for his book on "The Meaning of Ephor", and at the time of his death, was working on a treatise of some portions of the Book of Judges, which was nearly ready...
...Game of Love and Death. Alice Brady chooses to meet the guillotine with her husband rather than accept his noble gift of passports which would have enabled her lover and herself to escape. With this verbose French revolution episode by Remain Rolland, the Theatre Guild's season continues to be disappointing...
...Rowan, Iowa, Mrs. A. L. Aldrich has had three husbands in ten months, losing the first two by death and disappearance respectively...
...bided his time and saw how things were done. Then in 1896, when he was ready, when he had found his man William McKinley, he quietly retired from business, went into politics with a bang, and put his candidate across on the first ballot. From that time until Death came for him in his Washington mansion (1904), Mark Hanna, as Senator from Ohio, "minister without portfolio," leader of the Senate, was very much in politics. In Ohio he was politics. Now and then someone was foolhardy enough to oppose him in his own state. One such, Robert McKisson, a Mayor...
...Macedon. Napoleon III was "a great adventurer; a beautiful addition to our collection." Catiline captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal to the purely technical and somewhat Carlylian brilliance of his style as a writer, his individuals bear resemblance to queerly grouped and overstuffed animals in a museum, regarding their audience with dazed and overconfident ferocity. But if the characters are not alive...