Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death of the Pope last week caused a lull in international war drummings, celebrations, diplomatic and social functions. Italy stopped its violent newspaper campaign against the European democracies for a whole three days, renewed it early this week with new vigor. Gracious comment on Pius' death in German newspapers was that he was a "political" Pope and the next one should...
...Embassy at Rome, although not accredited to the Vatican, went into mourning. Most foreign embassies and legations in Washington canceled scheduled social functions. One legation there not affected by the death was the Egyptian, which held a big reception in honor of the 19th birthday of King Farouk, a stanch Moslem...
...verdict: Guilty. The punishment: Death before a firing squad...
...scantily-clad Mayfair trollop, "The Black Butterfly," was found stabbed to death. Police investigated whether she had been done in for blabbing I. R. A. secrets...
...their hatred of this royal boon, patiently waited for an incident to demonstrate their feelings. Fortnight ago, they found one. One of the Flemish politicians pardoned by the King's bill was Dr. Adrian Martens, a mediocre medical man who had worked for Flemish autonomy. Sentenced to death, Martens escaped to The Netherlands in 1918. The Belgians burned him in effigy. After the passage of the amnesty bill, he returned unobtrusively to take up practice in Ghent. Some time ago, Belgian Premier Paul Henri Spaak proposed Dr. Martens for membership in the newly created Flemish Academy of Science...