Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolize its political death, the party elected as secretary a man who, through no fault of his own, had not had much of a life. Alberto lacometti joined the Socialists in his student days and the Fascists kicked him out of Italy in 1926, when he was 24. In France he got a job as head gardener at the lush Moulin Bicherel roadhouse. The sight of the idle rich disporting themselves disgusted him and he quit. France kicked him out and he got a job addressing envelopes in Brussels. The Germans chased him for a year, caught him, gave...
...Genoa's 16th Century Palazzo Ducale. Its drafty corridors bore the scent of political decay. Had Italian Socialism, corrupted by its alliance with the Communists, come home to die? Its leaders said not-but their expostulations carried little conviction, even to one another. Last week, the evidence of death was strong enough to warrant interment...
From Paris last week came evidence of other Socialist concern with the evidences of death. The Associated Press reported that Socialist Dr. Jean Huet had told the General Council of the Seine Department that as many as 8,000 persons might be buried alive by mistake every year. "He recommended on behalf of the Socialist Party," said the A.P., "that more modern methods of determining death be required...
Vile Bodies orchestrated the gay dance of death of Mayfair's Bright Young Things between the wars. Readers were somewhat taken aback by the ferocity of the ending: the unheroic hero stands in the total blackness of the next war's no-man's-land, waiting to toss his Huxdane-Halley bacterial bomb and infect the enemy with leprosy. Black Mischief was a grim guffaw at the efforts of an Oxford-trained black emperor to apply the notions of liberalism, progress, international uplift and birth control to a country as barbaric as Ethiopia. Scoop, the most rollicking...
...retrieve from the waste of time and progress the hideous country house which is his real love. His wife betrays him with a cheap social hanger-on who is not even physically attractive. His son & heir is killed. To save his sanity, the man betrayed by life & death goes abroad. In South America he falls into the clutches of a maniac recluse living in an inaccessible tract of the Amazon jungle. The mad outcast keeps the lover of the manorial past in a serfdom more awful than death-reading aloud the complete works of the laureate of industrial England, Charles...