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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they still lie. The track of a tropical hurricane leaves a capricious swath of complete destruction, but the two parallel grooves the tank leaves in the red mud lead to scenes of planned death worse than any hurricane leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Chewed Up | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Outcast" tells the story of a doctor (Warren William)) pursued by the vengeance of a family which believes him guilty of the death of one of its members. The particular agent of retribution is Karen Morley, sister-in-law of the dead woman. The melodramatic note enters when a moh attempts to lynch both Morley and William. The lynching scene is about the most improbable and at the same time one of the most effective ever filmed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/2/1937 | See Source »

Keats left England in 1820, bitter and ready for death. The next year he died, forcing his friends to bury Fanny's letters with him. In them lay Fanny's soul, and without them, Victorians tore her memory to shreds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...Tristan is to be taken by the well known Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior. This part is without doubt one of the most thankless in all grand opera from the acting standpoint, for during the entire last act, Mr. Melchior is forced to toss feverishly on a couch in death agonies while at the same time singing a long and rather dull part. Few tenors have been able to bounce up and down in a realistically painful manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...With the death of Morse and Rogers, John K. Browne '69 becomes the oldest graduate in years at 93, while Isaac Flagg '64, only three months younger than Browne is the oldest graduate in regard to class. William E. Marsh '62, who never graduated remains the oldest alumnus, having reached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rogers and Morse, Oldest University Graduates, Die in Past Two Days | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

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