Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost as Death came a limousine swirled up to the hospital door. Out stepped the dying woman's younger sister, Margaret of Hohenzollern, wife of the Landgrave of Hesse, who accompanied her. They hurried up the stairs?too late...
Most U. S. news organs and some U. S. news-services put a wrong slant on the story. To the exclusion of other truths it was reported that no Hohenzollern was present at the Death, that a Prussian adjutant of the ex-Kaiser had barked: "The attendance of His Majesty at the funeral is wholly out of the question...
...presented to her as a Russian nobleman exiled but honorable. Actually his father was a cobbler. He himself has admitted practicing the lowest profession?pimping?at Marseilles, where he guided low-minded tourists to the foulest stews in France. But when presented to Victoria, eleven years after the death of her husband Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander Subkoff seemed personable, a gentleman, an "interesting" young...
Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl...
...saved him. They marry, they are happy. Comes a baby. End of Part IV. One day the masked stranger reappears. The artist waves goodbye to his wife and son, goes off to paint a picture for the stranger. The stranger unmasks. In horror the artist falls to his death; the unmasked stranger turns his face. It is Death...