Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd that packed the small court room gasped with surprise when the Prosecutor demanded the death penalty for "military rebellion through cooperation with the Republic." They had thought that the mild Professor's efforts for peace would excuse his sins. Two days later the court announced its decision: imprisonment for 30 years, a sentence which later can be easily shortened or suspended...
After searching through his violent, labyrinthine books, the family of late Novelist Thomas Wolfe culled an epitaph for his Asheville, N. C. tombstone from his posthumous novel The Web and the Rock: "Death bent to touch his chosen son with mercy, love and pity, and put the seal of honor on him when he died...
Tough-minded Javier Bueno was a Socialist who, after the 1934 Republican-Socialist rebellion, was fined 32,000,000 pesetas and sentenced to death for being "ideologically responsible" for the rising. The death sentence was commuted to 30 years' imprisonment, but for good measure some officers of the Foreign Legion hanged Javier Bueno from the wall of his office in a harness of barbed wire and fed him copies of his Avance. Bueno got out of prison in the general amnesty that followed the 1936 elections and refused to join Largo Caballero's revolutionary movement. But when...
...Republican. Moreover, Texas folk are still quoting a public address Gene Howe made two years ago when, kidding on the square, he said that before moving to Texas, he and his late partner, Wilbur C. Hawk, nipped a coin to determine which would be Democrat, which Republican. Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably won't be too sorry. Never has he returned from a trip to his Texas duck blinds, daily golf, bridge & poker that he hasn't cried: "I'm never, never going...
...Borrowed Time (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), borrowed from the 1938 Broadway hit, is a rose-colored peek at the bourn Hollywood visited in Death Takes a Holiday. As gently as a mortician, but allowing itself an occasional smile, it presents Death as a softspoken, courteous gentleman ("Mr. Brink") equipped with an impeccable British accent. Its story is what might happen if an old man, tenacious of life, could get this urbane Grim Reaper trapped up an apple tree...