Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Mumtaz Begum wearied of him and fled to Bombay, where one Bawla took her under his wealthy wing. Tukoji Rao III was furious. One day when Bawla and Mumtaz Begum were out driving, a band of thugs hired by the Maharaja set upon them, stabbed Bawla to death, were only prevented from killing Mumtaz Begum by a group of Englishmen returning from a go of golf, armed with drivers, mashies, putters. In the ensuing scandal the Maharaja was obliged to abdicate in favor of his son. He fell in love soon after with a girl from Seattle named Nancy...
...death in 1938 of Patrick Cardinal Hayes left the Roman Catholic Church in the U. S. with only three Cardinals. Many a U. S. Catholic hopes that Pope Pius XII will create...
Lately all he had left were his memories. Last week he no longer needed the $100 a month which the estate of J. P. Morgan Sr. had been sending him: at the Home for Incurables, cancer of the throat brought death to 78-year-old Pliny Fisk...
...speed, had a Mercedes coated with phosphorescent paint, a U. S. Auburn, a plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency of Uncle Amir Abdul Ilah...
Died. Constance Lindsay Skinner, 60, novelist, historian, journalist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in the Canadian wilds. Constance Skinner wrote mostly of frontier life, before her death supervised a historical series on The Rivers of America (TIME...