Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the sprawling Chinese war front Japanese troops last week continued their advance, shrinking still further the semicircle they have drawn around Hankow, temporary Chinese capital. For every mile gained, however, the Japanese paid a fancy price in blood and munitions. To replace gaps caused by death and sickness, 26,000 Japanese soldiers moved up the Yangtze on transport ships to aid the 180,000 already engaged in the campaign. Most notable temporary Japanese success last week was the cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile...
Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...
...When death came to his Aunt Sue, of whom he was very fond, he recalls: "I strove to bury sorrow in work, continuing my investigations of the various rots of the sweet potato." Some cuttings from The World Was My Garden...
...loss will inevitably be passed on to its investment trust backers, Tri-Continental and Selected Industries last week preferred to lay their new venture to two lesser reasons: 1) they have large chunks of capital they are eager to use; 2) since banks were divorced from underwriting, and death or depression has slashed the ranks of underwriters, there is an acknowledged lack of underwriting capital...
...Marlborough was merely no worse than his enemies. They signed a pussyfoot treaty at Utrecht but probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government to build fabulously costly Blenheim Palace as his reward for being a "good Englishman." For the modern reader, main interest in Author Churchill's six volumes is likely to centre less on Marlborough's dubious...