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Word: deathly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked-for rest in peaceful retirement was short-lived. Within four months, this relatively young man who had literally worked himself to death in four years of fruitful service for his country, was dead. CHESTER D. SEFTENBERG

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

LONDON -- The 9,141-ton British tanker Inverlane struck a mine and burned at sea with a probable death toll of 33, it was revealed tonight when survivors were landed from another mined tanker, the Atheltemplar, which witnessed the Inverlane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...entirely fresh and illuminating critical appraisal. . . . Stephen Spender and J. L. Gilli have translated some poems of the young Spanish poet. F. Gareia Lorea, who was killed early in the Spanish war. This is not, unfortunately, the first example of a considerable talent to meet an unfitting and untimely death. . . . Another translation, this time of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies." by Mr. Spender and J. B. Leishman. Rilke has at last come to have the international reputation he so richly merits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...swell performances:- John Profit as the silent bum; Helen Schuman in assorted bit parts; Agnes Love, who had the best lines in the show and made the most of them; Hunt Hamill, the suave, cynical, polo-playing hero of a shop-girl's dreams; and finally Richard Whittemore, the death-watch announcer with an appetite...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: Tbe Playgoer | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Jerked out of the way of a skidding automobile by an unidentified Yardling, a Union waitress narrowly missed death last night as she was crossing Quincy Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SAVES WAITRESS FROM COLLISION WITH CAR | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

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