Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the committee are William J. Bingham '16, chairman; Dean Hanford; Adlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene; William Edmonds '00; George Whitney '07; Charles Buell '23; Morris Earle '38; C. Russell Allen '38, and Wiley E. Mayne '38. The death of Chester N. Greenough '98 leaves a vacancy...
...Death Wears a White Gardenia-Zelda Popkin-Lippincott ($2). The death by strangulation of the credit manager of a big department store, solved by plodding store detectives to the humiliation of kibitzing professional sleuths...
...Death on the Nile-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). The murder of an English heiress in Egypt, followed by two more baffling killings, solved by Agatha Christie's famed Hercule Poirot in a story that is readable, implausible, but contains the most genuinely surprising solution of the month...
...steward, the stocky, 50-year-old Mont-kaw, and saves him from labor in the fields. His clairvoyance and wit, when the great Potiphar himself speaks to him, start him on his way to becoming first Potiphar's reader and later his steward upon Mont-kaw's death. But most of Joseph in Egypt is given over to a study of the mad passion of Potiphar's wife for Joseph-a passion that, in Mann's account, transforms her from a cool and indolent lady of fashion to a desperate, pitiable, hagridden monster, willing to consider...
...modern world Swift's egomania is translated into "two nations, the rich and the poor, walking to their death in opposed hordes, [bound together by] a cannibalistic greed, hatred, and fear...