Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine...
...stable of steeplechasers and a tongue like a riding crop, which she and her friends blame on her unusually severe hangovers. She discovers, from a personable young brain surgeon (George Brent), that her headaches have a more serious cause. The surgeon knows that every day brings her closer to death. Before death comes, on a sunny day at his Vermont farm, Judith knows too, but is convinced that the victory has been hers...
George Palmer Putnam, husband of the late Flier Amelia Earhart and publisher of a book called The Man Who Killed Hitler: 1) told the press he had received no less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...
...severe blow to the aging, implacable Stevens. Shortly afterwards he died. He was buried in a Negro cemetery -"not from any natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator." (By all the evidence, Thad Stevens was an atheist...
...make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...