Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson Parker, 3, of Orange, N.J., sent to play in the basement of his apartment building because the weather was bad outside, strangled to death in a coin-operated washing machine...
Gold-mine Heiress Nancy Oakes de Marigny sued to annul her 5½-year-old marriage to Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in the Bahamas in 1943 of bludgeoning her father to death. Her charge: he was never validly divorced from his first wife...
...student riots was "Bloody Monday," a day every year when the Sophomore would attack the Freshmen en masse and if possible throw them into the Charles. Eliot told his faculty to take no notice, and it wasn't very long before even "Bloody Monday" had died a natural death...
Memphis' boll-headed Boss Ed Crump told the press that he had got a note demanding $50,000 on pain of death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...
...music (TIME, March 18, 1946). Most listeners had stumbled on Bartók's harsh, stubborn harmonies, his jagged rhythms, and never got through to the original and melodic genius that audiences and critics were now beginning to find in his music. Not until a year after his death in 1945 did audiences get to hear much of his music, and to convince themselves that they liked it. Big record companies rushed his last great compositions onto wax: Columbia, the Piano Concerto No. 3; Victor, the Violin Concerto. Neither has yet recorded what some admirers believe is the greatest...