Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain's Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth explained she desired to avoid "various legal complications." Biggest complication avoided: the estimated $21,000,000 U. S. inheritance tax her estate would lose at her death...
...must also know special tests for blood and other stains, be familiar with firearms and the effects on human tissues of bullets and powder; with botany (to identify plant dusts on clothing, vegetable fibres and plant seeds in stomachs); with entomology (because insect infestation helps determine the time of death in bodies long dead...
...black. But the process involved as ruthless a purge as anyone short of Stalin has ever produced and Field's employes have found their jobs both less serene and less secure. Last week, however, it appeared that the quiet days of yore have returned. For after the sudden death of Chairman McKinsey, Marshall Field directors decided not to appoint another rude outsider as chairman but to return to the time when the company was run by a man who "knew how to wrap a package...
...mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial Association, which helps make fine instruments available to talented young musicians...
...17th and 18th-Century Cremona (Italy), which was the violin-making capital of the world. He married twice, produced eleven children, waxed wealthy enough to buy wife No. 1 a splendid funeral, lived to be 93, and kept on making finer & finer violins up to the year of his death. Contemporaries described him as a long, spare figure of a man who spent virtually all of his waking hours at a workbench littered with the tools of his craft...