Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without equivocation, the supposedly reputable We the People radioviewed Doctor Longoria Tuesday, Nov. 7, as the discoverer of the "death...
...Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag in mourning, and Minister Vladimir Hurban cried that what happened in Prague "is further proof . . . that living space [Lebensraum] for the Nazi Germans means space for death [Todesraum] for the rest of the world...
...aims of Joseph Stalin are inscrutable, his route of procedure dark as the labyrinth. Most observers have thought that his Eastern interests could best be served by keeping Japan in a more or less permanent death-clinch with China. But on Russia's West a policy of friendship has lately done great things for Joseph Stalin's ego, area, attitude; and he may well have decided to train grins rather than guns on Japan as well. If he has, the last words of the last chapter of the story of free China were last week being written...
...with many a shady deal in speculation and filibustering, Benjamin boasted that no letter of his would be found when he died. Only a few were. Yet he was thought charming by Mrs. Chestnut, "that tart memorialist of Southern statesmen," who declared that "the Confederacy has been done to death by the politicians." After a harrowing flight from Richmond, he became a leader at the London...
...mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...