Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impertinent reporter wrote impertinent George Bernard Shaw: "How long do you think you are going to live?'' Shaw replied: "I cannot tell you the exact date of my death. . . . You must be content to know that as I am in my eighty-second year, my number is up, and the cremation furnace may make an end of me at any moment, to the great relief of many worthy persons...
...With the polished simplicity of a parable, the frugal neatness of good homespun, and a cast of eager, fresh child actors, Generals Without Buttons retells in cinema the gently satirical story that young French Author Louis Pergaud told in La Guerre des Boutons, shortly before he went to his death at Verdun...
...Christy and Charles Dana Gibson diluted, in ascending order of popularity, descending order of excellence. Last week at the Newhouse Galleries Manhattanites were surprised and seduced by the 68 brilliant, relatively intimate paintings, crayons and drawings which the 89-year-old Italian left in his Paris studio at his death in 1931. In his smaller works (minimum price: $400 for a sketch) Boldini showed a direct mastery of the Proustian atmospheres which he heightened to exoticism in his fake, flower-like portraits of women...
...modern organ, and has a correspondingly limpid quality of tone. Unlike the modern organ it cannot increase or diminish the volume of tone. The "swell" mechanism of the modern organ was invented in England in 1712, was not used in continental Europe until long after Bach's death. Bach was such a master of musical architecture that he could create the illusion of swell without any mechanical...
...Here followed an unusual 6,000-word Presidential elegy on death...