Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the President quipped that Electric Bond & Share's long-awaited acquiescence to SEC's holding company regulations showed that the utilities' "death sentence" was really a "health sentence" (see p. 56) a newshawk asked: "You wouldn't call it a life sentence...
...News from Prague. "His head was badly cut, but when I insisted not only on taking him to a hospital, but in giving the police a full record of the accident, he pleaded 'the police will be compelled to send me back and I will be beaten to death.' He explained, this mild, reasonable little Socialist, that the Czech authorities had no choice. 'If too many Sudeten German refugees collected in Prague, Hitler would use that as an excuse to take the capital city over...
...Democratic Sudetens. "These people must be saved if we have to rouse the whole world" said Gillies and Grenfell in a joint statement. "The Czechs will now forfeit within a few days the claim to the worldwide sympathy they have deservedly won if they drive back to torture and death at the hands of the Nazis these front-line Soldiers of Democracy...
...story of an American woman who predominates a roll in the hay with Lord Howe so that Washington's troops may receive support and retreat, Lewis Meltzer's play meanders through two dull acts, rears its head for a final gasp in the third, and then dies a miserable death...
...picks up his Kipling. And now he thought of young John Kipling of the Irish Guards, lying under a white wooden cross in his same "tireless soil." How did it go? "There is some spot on foreign ..." Vag checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...