Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rainy day in Berlin, five years ago, Adolf Hitler's monoliterate Nazis solemnly heaped up a bonfire of books, solemnly burned them to death. Among the victims of this auto-da-fé were the books of such great Germans as Thomas Mann, as well as such "unGerman" writers as Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Judge Ben Lindsey. Drizzling skies kept the bonfire from blazing, but the smoke of it still stinks in democratic nostrils. Last week, with plans afoot for the next session of the International Congress of Book Publishers, to be held this year at Leipzig...
...frail, 51-year-old Chicago poetess named Harriet Monroe persuaded 100 citizens to give $50 annually for a poetry magazine. Before her death last year she had kept Poetry in first place among U. S. poetry magazines for 25 years, exercised a powerful influence in literary movements, launched a score of new writers, written an autobiography scheduled for publication this spring. Last week in Chicago, the Renaissance Society opened an exhibition of the editorial papers she left to the University of Chicago. Largely made up of matters of historical interest-letters and manuscripts of Robert Frost, James Joyce, Willa Gather...
...underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman attired in priestly garments shoots at a thief, hits a can of nitroglycerin and makes the devastation complete. There are a number of death scenes in which characters in their final agony rise as sturdily as opera singers to express their wrath, their views of the world and their lost hopes in prose poetry that owes a good deal to Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce. There is even a scene showing Calvin Coolidge telling homespun...
...mobs rule the city and thugs assault his sweetheart. John Hargedon, after a long career trapping and abandoning girls, is himself trapped into marriage by a shrewd wench who despises him, robs a house during the strike, shoots two gangsters after the same loot, and dies an ironically heroic death...
Confining himself largely to the problems of Massachusetts, Dr. Russell reported that smallpox, once dreaded above all diseases, has now been beaten to a standstill. Thanks to universal application of the Jenner vaccine, introduced in 1800, the disease has very nearly disappeared from the State, the last small pox death occurring over five years...