Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinarily Mr. Hirota works overtime upholding such fine distinctions as the diplomatic nicety that Japan and China today are still officially at peace. That even the Foreign Office chief should last week threaten the head of a "friendly nation" with death showed how desperately exasperated many Japanese are becoming by China's continued resistance, increasingly exhausting to the Empire...
Joseph Lautner from the Westminter Choir School of Princeton and Dorothy Baker, soloist at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York have leading roles. Soloists from Harvard include Fred Rogesin '30 as Thauatos (Death), Herbert Moss 2G as the Herald and Heracles, James L. Morrisson '38 as Evander, and David MacAllister '38 as Apollo...
...divorced sugar-heir husband, Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., and two friends toasted each other until all hours. Before dawn they boarded Mr. Spreckels' private plane to fly to San Francisco. The plane rose 100 feet, nose-dived into a swamp. Results: a fractured pelvis for gay Mrs. Clinton, death for Spreckels' professional pilot...
...luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent." The natives ("they were afraid of us more in the manner in which you are afraid of a sudden terrific noise, than as you are afraid of suffering and death") she sees as primitives, not as savages...
...closer relation with its slaves than the interloping middle class. With the same aristocratic naturalness she let two high-born English bachelors make her home their headquarters. They taught her the Greek poets, practiced the art of conversation, took her in a plane over East Africa, and their death, during her last weeks in Africa, was interwoven with the bitter loss of her farm...