Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father's new-grown, straw-colored mustache and said: "That's got to come off." Next morning Nubby, Betty Jane and mother rigged a barber chair, forced the Ambassador into it, and hacked the thing off themselves-occasionally bringing the U. S. Ambassador closer to death than Japanese bombs ever have...
...have been tempted to dramatize King Richard III and the events of his bloody reign. Hollywood has finally succumbed; but with typical Hollywood erudition, emphasis has been shifted from the character of the kind to the horror of his crimes, and the result is a gruesome nightmare of sudden death with but few elements of constructive drama. Basil Rathbone, as the king, happily avoids overacting and creates a reasonably credible character; but the script and the direction are against him. That amiable Englishman, Boris Karloff, is made the center of interest, and the results are as expected. Costumed settings...
Most notable absentee from the first team was Army's Harry Stella, and small wonder, for he was mousetrapped to death when the Cadets came here, flat on his All-America face. Bob Brooks of Yale was the top tackle the Crimson met all year, and George Sommers of Dartmouth was right on his heels...
...long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young Henry Adams wrote to his brother: "No man is fit to take hold now who is not cool as death...
When Sandburg's eloquence rises to the occasion offered by his story's end, it lifts up toward something by no means common in U. S. writing. The chapter on Lincoln's assassination and death is surgical in the closeness of its reporting, until it breaks-with powerful effect-into one simple, lyrical sentence. Later...