Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fancy Free. In The Bronx, N.Y., William Storgoff, who was charged with grand larceny, forgery and impersonation, bore a tattoo reading "Death Before Dishonor...
...Friends of a Fort Worth bookkeeper named George Stephens heard him preach his own funeral oration-from records he had prepared before his death. Stephens' voice was charged with emotion as it began, calm as it concluded: "There will be no burial service." His body was sent to a medical school for dissection...
They also had a remarkably small Communist Party (about 100,000). Complains Communist Secretary General Jean Terfve: "Belgians are a peculiar people. They always grumble, but fundamentally they are satisfied." Spaak puts it differently. "Prosperity," he says, "is the death of Communism...
...Greek Orthodox Church calendar it was Good Friday, and Athens mourned the death of Christ. Flags were at half mast and the cathedral was draped in black. Behind Christ's flower-decked bier, members of the Greek government formed a procession which slowly wound through streets lined with spectators holding lighted candles. In the procession snowy-haired, handsome Minister of Justice Christos Ladas whispered to Athens Police Chief Angelos Evert: "Why the cordon of police around us? You do seem to take unnecessary precautions...
...last letter of his brother Larry who died off the coast of China. Larry confessed in it that his father's scandal was more than he could bear and that his next mission would be his last. It is only the knowledge that he caused his own son's death which lays Joe open, and once Joe is in the open, he can find no better way out of his predicament than suicide...