Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled animal...
Hara-Kiri. The Commonwealth & Southern Corp., the public utility holding company once bossed by the late Wendell Willkie, has been under SEC's "death sentence" since 1940. Last week SEC approved C. & S.'s plan to dissolve itself. Holders of C. & S.'s 1,441,247 shares of preferred stock will receive cash and stock in subsidiary companies worth between $106 and $111 per preferred share. Holders of 33,673,328 shares of common stock will get what's left, from $4.50 to $5.25 per share in stock. Holders of C. & S. stock option warrants will...
...colonel develops a nasty habit of passing the death sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...
...months before his death, Irey (who had always discouraged publicity) was persuaded by a publisher to tell his story to William J. Slocum. The Tax Dodgers points up one of the unpleasantly ironical facts of political life in the U.S.: that pimps (like Bioff), murderers, political racketeers and mobsters can work at their trades with impunity, and are seldom brought to book for their most serious crimes...
...Guild's January offering, nevertheless, is Margaret Irwin's latest jazzed-up documentary on England's first Elizabeth. Taking the 19-year-old princess from the death of her young half-brother Edward VI to the marriage of her half-sister Mary, the book, is the second in a series on the redheaded Tudor (the first, Young Bess, was a 1945 bestseller), which promises to continue as long as Miss Irwin and her readers can stand it. Meaning to be more or less true to history, it manages only to be undistinguished either as scholarship or fiction...