Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Dewey, professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University, joined fellow philosophers Sunday in paying tribute to the late Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy Emeritus, who died last Tuesday. "The death of Alfred North Whitehead was a double less to me as to his multitude of friends and admirers. His gracious and radiant personality shone throughout all he said and did. In addition we have lost an intelligence that illuminated every subject it touched. He was a great friend and great philosopher because he was a great human being...
...British government doled out enough for a simple existence. He took the name Count of Pollenza, after a village in northern Italy. He walked and fished. When he read of events in his ex-country, he was heard to murmur, "This will be the death of me." On Christmas Eve, 1947, he was stricken with a lung infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain...
Changes of foehn-like abruptness have checkered Dr. Paul's political meanderings. When Hitler came to power, spectacled Dr. Paul divorced his Jewish wife, who was later sent to her death in the Riga concentration camp. In 1945, the Americans appointed Dr. Paul mayor of Gera in Thuringia. When the Russians took over Gera, Dr. Paul received them in flag-bedecked streets. He joined the Soviet-sponsored Socialist Unity Party and was soon appointed minister president of Thuringia...
After Boris, his supreme triumph, only a few years were left to Musorgsky. Sinking toward dissolution, he still continued to .create music-the unfinished opera Khovanshchina, many songs, e.g., The Song of the Flea, Songs and Dances of Death. Then, after a last desperate effort to make money by touring Russia as accompanist for a singer, he collapsed. Finally put in a hospital early in 1881, he lived only long enough for Artist Ilya Repin to finish his famous drunkard's-nose portrait...
...holiday for James T. Milton, 54-year-old member of the maintenance department. He left home early that morning to shovel off the roof of Adams House, not stopping to open his Christmas presents or receive greetings from his family, and fell from the roof to his death on the Plympton Street sidewalk a few hours later...