Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Gordon played the wife of a celebrated, swinish, Svengali-ish actor who has trained her to be his servile leading lady. Despite his mistreatment of her as both wife and actress, she remains loyal to him. After his florid death, she remains loyal to his memory. He had prophesied that she could not act without him, and in duty bound she goes steadily downhill-till about four minutes before the final curtain...
...more advanced model would float serenely to earth on a large parachute. It would be equipped with a heater to keep the pilot from freezing to death in the cold upper air. The really de luxe models may be watertight and stocked with provisions to keep the pilot alive for a while if he falls into...
...once the babies had been emptied, "vivisectors claimed that science acknowledged no morals; plutocrats held that business is business and nothing else; Anacreontic writers put vine leaves in their hair and drank or drugged themselves to death . . . bright young things daubed their cheeks with paint and their nails and lips with vermilion, made love to soldiers, kept up their spirits with veronal tablets, and changed into battered old demireps in their twenties...
Shaw's solution is the reform of the language and the creation of a new alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...
Double Trouble. In Manhattan, Andrew Sheridan, under death sentence for murder, refused to tell how much money he had made before his arrest: "It might incriminate me on my income...