Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conductor heard the muffled howling of dogs. Next he investigated, traced the noise to an abandoned night club. He notified the San Francisco S. P. C. A. When Officer Al Girolo broke in, he found 34 feebly whimpering dogs chained to the silver-&-gold walls inside. Obviously near death from starvation, the dogs were rotting bags of bones, their teeth and gums infected, their bodies covered with shiny spots where their hair had fallen out. Two of the dogs were dead. Seven of them were eating a weaker one alive. The two dead dogs had been almost devoured...
...must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military camp one of his pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads about death in the papers, his mind cries out, "Too few are dead, too few." He wishes he could...
...perhaps the best man who ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...
...subtitle of William Harlan Hale's novel about Hannibal Hooker puts the tumbril before the horse: His Death and Adventures. This inversion is no accident...
After this spiritual death, his adventures are carnal enough. He turns up on a southbound tramp steamer, becomes embroiled in an abortive Haitian rebellion, tries his hand at Washington politics. As the War begins he becomes a-foreign correspondent-on the German side. When the U. S. is on the brink of joining the Allies, he carries on underground anti-Ally propaganda to keep the U. S. out. Courting but never really espousing lost causes, living up to his ideals but not to his talents, he scorns worldly success, of course never gets it. At the end, all the rapscallion...