Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collected from the person to blame for the accident which killed him. Mistresses mourned, wives exulted in France this week for the Highest Tribunal, after hearing in one day three mistresses try to prove themselves admirable, handed down the blanket decision that henceforth any woman upon the sudden death by accident of her man shall "have right to damages only if united to the victim by the legal bonds of matrimony...
Sculptor Rush's use of a female model shocked and outraged Philadelphia Quakers, but they soon forgave him. He was a member of the City Council for 22 years, a founder of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, a member of its board until his death...
...strain of the life he was living [in Texas] accentuated, whether it was the pain he endured, I do not know. . . . He began, however, to drink, and for my mother and his brother, Theodore, and his sisters began the period of harrowing anxiety which was to last until his death...
...their presses' best capacity, from 380,000 copies of the first issue to more than a million this week, Monte Bourjaily perceived that he had missed the market that was waiting for a U. S. pictorial weekly. Last week he announced that he would give Midweek Pictorial not death, but a whiff of anesthetic. He would discontinue its publication until such time as he could "give it a new dress and format...
Last week Driver Washington and Owner Rauch stood in Queens County Court accused by the State of being equally responsible for her death. In previous cases it had never been possible to pin wilful negligence on the owner or prove that he knew his truck was defective. This time it took the jury only three hours to set a precedent by convicting both men of second-degree manslaughter. Remarked the judge, deferring sentence: "This verdict may save the lives of many people...