Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross Professorship is named in honor of the late Professor Samuel H. Cross '12, who was for many hears prior to his death in 1946 a leading American authority on the languages and cultures of Eastern Europe...
Bandit Jesse James was one of the pink-paper Gazette's well-known subscribers until his death in 1882 (duly noted in the Gazette), but sedate family men also ate up the weekly's authoritative sport news and lurid stories of "horrid murders, outrageous robberies . . . vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers...
...Bare Facts. But Prohibition (1920) dried up the Police Gazette's barroom circulation, and in 1922 it lost most of its barbershop trade when women invaded man's next-to-last retreat from womankind to have their hair bobbed. In 1932, ten years after Fox's death, the Police Gazette folded. Revived by Mrs. Merle Williams Hersey, a Methodist minister's daughter, as a magazine frankly and exclusively devoted to sex. the Gazette was sold in 1935 to Publisher Roswell. When the Post Office suspended his mailing privileges in 1942 for one year for "obscenity," Roswell...
...British had only gotten around to creating a national company after Diaghilev's death (1929), though ballet had been a London rage since the 18th Century. Under the stern direction of a tiny Irish-born former Diaghilev dancer named Ninette de Valois, they had modeled their company after the classical Russian patterns. But in 20 years, it had become as British as meat...
...death of Commonwealth & Southern was about all that Wall Streeters seemed sad about last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.38 points to a new 1949 high of 185.36, well above what most traders had hoped for in what they had regarded as only the usual "summer rise...