Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against this background of struggle month ago a mediocre physician, Adrian Martens, who had been sentenced to death in 1918 (and later reprieved) for plotting Flemish autonomy with Germany, was appointed a charter member of the newly created Flemish Academy of Science. The Walloons were furious and the Cabinet of Premier Paul Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier...
...Scotia fishermen and an extraordinary memory portrait of the late Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, "as seen at night at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 15th Street" (see cut). Its tonic virtue: that it brought to life without sentiment an imaginative artist whose seclusion and eccentricity delayed until after death his fame as one of the great 19th-Century U. S. painters...
Acquitted of manslaughter, he was transferred to Oklahoma City to edit the Oklahoma News. But the shock of the killing had dimmed some of Crusader Magee's fire, and after the death of old E. W., the Scripps beacon no longer shone so brightly. Editor Magee quit in 1933 to market a parking meter he had invented...
...delivery of a child. If skilled "man-midwives" were employed, they often had to cover their patients with "modesty cloths" before setting to work. In 1522, Dr. Wertt of Hamburg, Germany, dressed himself as a woman, went to a confinement. When found out he was burned to death...
...familiar New Deal attack on Business last week precipitated a quarrel over a familiar New Deal paradox. The attack: FTC told the Monopoly Committee that the basing-point price system makes the steel industry "a focal centre of monopolistic infection which, if not eradicated, miy well cause the death of free capitalistic industry in the U. S." The paradox: The Administration's dual attitude toward Business-olive branch in one hand, big stick in the other...