Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordered a witness's disbelief in a punishing God admitted in evidence to lessen the force of her testimony, liberals cried out in dismay. The witness was Mrs. Clarence Miller, young wife of one of the defendants. Said Judge Barnhill: "If I believed that life ends with death and that there is no punishment after death, I would be less apt to tell the truth." Chief Justice William Howard Taft, highest-ranking U. S. jurist, is a Unitarian. Unitarians do not believe in purgatory. But under Judge Barnhill's ruling, the Chief Justice would stand impeached...
...more than the desire to serve the University that prompted "Eddie" Farrell to battle with death while crossing the Atlantic with the stricken trainer, who had for forty years served the cause of sport and sportsmanship so well. There was in that unselfish action of his the spirit that inspires men to things of which they knew not they were capable. And in the recognition of that spirit there is recognition also of that harmony of body, athletics, and the men who teach its laws...
...about to surrender themselves to the soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune of a thousand mixed auto horns...
...counterplots, bolstering all that was vigorous in British government and culture. The tall but awkward Essex, 25, took Leicester's place as Queen's favorite when the Queen was over 50, long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...
Jubilant, dashing Doug King was the life and death of a Hallowe'en party on an old Southern manor. He hid in the dark for fun and was murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...