Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingstree, S. C., Farmer H. R. Morris found a lost cow which had swished its tail around a tree, knotted itself fast, slowly starved to death...
...Fairbanks was in bed, resting after two mild heart attacks. He had been to a football game two days before, then to dinner at his son's home. His male nurse heard the Fairbanks mastiff, Marco Polo, growling beside Fairbanks' bed, entered to find that Death, as it must to every man, had come to restless Douglas Fairbanks...
...ambulance went clanging through the streets of Manhattan, carrying Heywood Broun's great bulk to the hospital. His grippe had turned into pneumonia, and he was gravely ill. Never in good health, his heart weakened by years of hard work and good living, Broun was close to death. As he fought his fever in a dim room high above the Hudson River, in the Presbyterian Hospital's Harkness Pavilion, he could reflect that he had at least put all his varied affairs in order...
...wrote a sober obituary on the death of Socialist Eugene V. Debs in 1926, two bitter columns on Sacco & Vanzetti the year after. In 1933 he announced his resolve to start a union for reporters. A few months later the American Newspaper Guild was founded, with Broun as chairman. Most of its routine work was done by other officers, but Broun was always the Guild's presiding saint: his rotund figure constantly protected...
When the New Deal was putting over its "Death Sentence" Public Utility Holding Company Act, Associated Gas and Electric's Howard Hopson spent $1,000,000 lobbying against it. With his roly-poly body and ear-to-ear smile, he became the utility industry's "mystery man" and lone wolf. Last week Hopson was hopelessly ill with heart disease, and Associated (a $1,000,000,000 system) was in financial trouble such as never caught up with it when he was at the helm...