Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time and again, in the payment of claims, when the spectre of death has darkened the door, have I, as the representative of my company, been the ray of sunshine that has driven away the clouds of despair...
...Leary is really in the thick of the fight. "People seem to be tickled to death with my platform," he told the CRIMSON, "they all say they're going to vote for me. I'm swamped with phone calls...
...DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN-Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Little, Brown...
...Death on the Installment Plan fills in the nightmare to his 20th year. It provoked less excitement in Paris literary circles than either his Journey, which started riots when it lost the 1932 Goncourt Prize, or his anti-Semitic "exercise," Trifles for a Massacre (TIME, May 30), which shocked even Nazis. Death on the Installment Plan was merely expurgated and called the work of a communist, an anarchist and a maniac. As the U. S. edition follows the French, most readers' imaginations are probably not strong enough to figure out what French publishers expurgated. English publishers threw out plenty...
ROPE ENOUGH-John Stephen Strange -Crime Club ($2). News Cameraman Barney Gantt stumbles into the middle of a death struggle between a corrupt New York political machine and a reform group which results in three murders. Dialogue: good. Action: exciting. Plot: middling...