Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Andrew William Mellon spent the last years of his long life at two related labors. One was completed before his death last August. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt graciously accepted his $50,000,000 art donations as the nucleus of a National Art Gallery. The other and more difficult was to clear his name of the charge made by the U. S. Treasury in March...
...case of the death of a student, his roommate or nearest relative must hand in his study card, with a statement to that effect, written legibly or typewritten, at University C on or before Tuesday, December 14, in order to avoid liability for the charge of $5 for late filling of the study card...
...something out of A. E. Housman;" the three kinds of Central Iceland scenery-"Stones, More Stones, and All Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination to be in at the death, whoever or whatever is dying." Prone to laugh the world off in one breath, to succumb helplessly to it in the next, he characteristically concludes his final contribution to Letters from Iceland...
According to popular legend, Cleopatra nearly vamped the Roman Empire to death. But if Cleopatra had been half as lucky in historians as she was in love, her reputation would now be very different. Such, at least, is the thesis of Biographer Ludwig's Cleopatra. A by-product of Ludwig's The Nile (TIME, Feb. 22), Cleopatra adds no new data to the little there is to go on: three lines from a letter of Antony's, one authentic bust. But Author Ludwig reopens the 2,000-year-old Cleopatra Case on the grounds that all contemporary...
...world's greatest woman scientist. Famed for her hard-won discovery of radium, Madame Curie here emerges as most deserving of fame for her incorruptible stand against cashing in on it. Known for an emotional self-discipline as strict asher public reserve, her response to the accidental death of her husband-collaborator is told in one of the most affecting and dramatic scenes in the biography...