Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent roster of labor and liberal groups, Socialist Norman Thomas nevertheless set up a "Committee for the Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa." Eleven men, including the police chief, were indicted. Presently the desk sergeant on duty the night of the floggings fell, jumped or was pushed to his death from the window of a Tampa hospital. A onetime justice of the peace also at police headquarters that night died suddenly and mysteriously. A Tampa Ku Klux Klansman implicated in the case was declared a suicide, though his wife called it murder...
...admitted that this has been International Shanghai's most terrible taste of war, although negligible in military results. Eight hundred Shanghai residents who had fled to Hong Kong during the past two months took ship there last week to sail back to Shanghai, figured they would rather risk Death and know the worst than remain stretched on the wrack of worrying about their Shanghai property...
Since the death of Poland's Marshal Joseph Pilsudski there has been no picturesque, magnetic figure in Eastern Europe to compare with Hungary's Admiral Nicholas Horthy. He lives with quarterdeck simplicity in a small palace on the heights of Buda overlooking Pest, rules with the title of "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary," gives the most brilliant balls in Europe in the Habsburg Palace across the way from his own, but never sleeps on the premises of the King and Emperor who does not exist in fact, although by legitimate inheritance the throne...
Felix M. Warburg was a close and valued friend of Harvard, and his death removes a hand that has supported the University with liberality, modesty, and intelligence for a quarter century. It is estimated that his gifts toward the Music Building, the Education School Endowment, and the new Fogg Museum totaled over a million dollars, and marked him as one of the most generous of Harvard's non-alumnus benefactors...
...death ends a happy association, which typifies all that is best in the spirit of American philanthropy...