Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GAETA, ITALY--Nineteen persons, including a New York woman and the Albanian Minister to Rome, were burned to death when a big Italian passenger seaplane crashed from 2500 feet into the side of Mount Maramola...
Like all men, coal miners expect to die some day. Unlike all men, coal miners also expect that an abnormally high proportion of their number will not die in bed.* Last week death came to 45 miners caught by an explosion of natural gas and rock dust in the Red Jacket Coal Co. mine near Grundy, in southwestern Virginia...
...Each year accidents kill 2.2 per 1,000 miners. Average rate of death from "external accident" among general U. S. population...
...England at 35. Julian became his father's biographer, wrote some 50 volumes, died in 1934 in San Francisco, Calif, at the age of 88. Rose turned Catholic and founded, under the Dominican rule, the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer and headed the order until her death twelve years ago. Because Nathaniel Hawthorne's powers of observation were extremely acute, and because he filled his many notebooks with jottings about his children, his random writings about them make up one of the best pictures of childhood in U. S. literature-tender, unexpected, funny, but with the overtones...
...portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry James. After her death in 1888 his painting became uncertain, yielded to impressionist influences, infrequently showed his old spontaneity...