Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea for Mother's Day came to Miss Jarvis on the second Sunday in May, 1907, the first anniversary of her mother's death. She persuaded a Philadelphia church to hold a special service: in a few years every church in the land was holding special services. In 1908 the Governor of Florida issued a special Mother's Day proclamation. Before he died a few years ago he called Miss Jarvis to his bedside and asked her if he had been the first Governor to get aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor...
...beginning to be afraid that Mother's Day has got completely out of hand. She still sends violent telegrams to President Roosevelt, occasionally walks round Philadelphia streets carrying a black satchel full of publicity releases and pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death. But mostly she stays behind the heavy curtains of her old red-brick house on North 12th St. Her telephone is not listed. Her letterhead does not have an address. Her sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number...
...making it more difficult for Sanatorium Inmate Ossietsky to recover anything. His physician, who has the French name of Dosquette, lent money to pay lawyers who got after Wannow & Lenze. By last week Ossietsky had received a total of about $35,000 from the Nobel Prize when, suddenly, Death came to him, shocked Pacifists. The official Nazi death certificate said Carl von Ossietsky died at 48 of meningitis...
...secured his transfer to a hospital. There the German guards wore him down until he gave his word that even if he ever got out of the hospital he would never again engage in any sort of pacifism. There was no suggestion of foul play last week in the death of long-ailing, wornout, beaten Nobelman Ossietsky...
...last week, 46-year-old Oilman Baker had fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to make his fortune and then go for a good long sail. With the same daring and dynamic enthusiasm that characterized his younger brother, the late, great Hobart ("Hobey") Baker, who has been immortalized since his Wartime death as the greatest U. S. college hockey player of all time. Skipper Baker, accompanied by two sons and a crew of three, had just completed a 30,000-mile cruise from Hong Kong...