Word: deathly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late John Dillinger had a plastic surgeon mutilate his fingertips with acid but failed to obliterate their prints because the job was poorly done (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The finger prints of another recent murderer, John Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton was effected because his teeth, most durable part of the human body, were still in his head and because he had been to a dentist who had preserved a chart of his mouth...
Pumpernickle Bill's car is a familiar sight on Pennsylvania roads. He averages about 30,000 miles a year, taking in Grange meetings, bee inspections, potato demonstrations. He has been writing his friendly column of anecdotes since the death in 1924 of Obediah Crouthamel (real name: Solomon DeLong), to whose column he was a contributor. Pumpernickle Bill's slogan is: "Fergess net, un schreib alsa mohl" (Don't forget to write sometime). A feature of his column is: "Glawwas Odder Net, Ow'r" (Believe It or Not). Sample...
...personality out of them. In a merciless four-year war for supremacy in the provinces, fought paper by paper, Lord Camrose trounced beefy Lord Rothermere, whose publications are often used as personal sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes 21 newspapers and more than 100 periodicals, which he divided last winter with his brother, Lord Kemsley, who took the Daily Sketch, Sunday Times (no connection with the Times), several provincial and Scottish papers...
...trapezist Lillian Leitzel, founder of the famed "Flying Codonas"; by his own hand, after shooting and fatally wounding his third wife, Trapezist Leitzel's onetime protégée, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last week went to confer with Mrs. Codona, from whom he had been separated for a year...
Opening of the story is a falsified military report by the narrator, a French officer, concerning the death of Lieutenant De Queslain in a duel with a Serbian captain. The rest of the story, told by De Queslain to the narrator the night before his death, unravels the real story behind the duel...