Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist Spain last week the regular staff correspondents and Novelist Ernest Hemingway were looking for survivors of the 450 Abies & Georgies who for a whole gallant day held a hilltop near Gandesa against the sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others...
...picture showed a woman's life through pregnancy and childbirth (TIME, April 4). Climax of the film's 72 minutes was the actual birth of a baby. Medical groups from the American Medical Association down endorsed the film, and its serious purpose: the reduction of sickness and death among mothers and offspring. Last week The Birth of a Baby was drawing crowds in Minnesota, but the problem of getting the picture past squeamish local censors had delayed its showing in many States, notably New York. At the suggestion of the film's producers, LIFE reproduced 35 pictures...
...doctrine without ever finding harbor in a cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published as The Specter, showed Samghim just as irresolute as he had been in the preceding 2,000 pages...
...Gorki wanted to write 2,700 pages about this dull and will-less man is almost as great a mystery as the Moscow trials that disclosed a fantastic story of Gorki's death.* The Specter begins with Samghim feebly awakened by an interest in a bold, mysterious client, Marina Zotova, who is mixed up in some shady negotiations over the sale of property in the Urals. But soon after they meet in Paris she is murdered, and suspicion of him in his home town drives him to Moscow. His wife, from whom he has been separated for years, dies...
...According to testimony at the trial, doctors either killed him or hastened his death...