Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reading a speech by socialist CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell, she said: "The way I figger it, come the day when Coldwell is runnin' the country, there'll be ... freedom for everybody. . . . Everybody starves to death, of course, after a week or two, but it don't matter. We're all free...
Carol of Rumania and his red-haired Magda Lupescu, her "death bed" marriage to him last July now made good & legal, sailed off to Europe after three years of exile in Mexico, three in Brazil. The ship was headed for Portugal, and they probably would not get much closer than that to their Communist-dominated homeland. The newlyweds would not exactly be roughing it: they were taking along a number of canaries, five dogs, two automobiles, 145 pieces of luggage...
...Arab, dirty and wounded, lay on the road, victim of a hit-&-run driver. Bayard Dodge, a young American, was on his way home after weary hours of doling out food to starving Beirut factory workers. Famine had sharpened the Near East's normal indifference to death; of all those who passed the sufferer, only the American stopped. Dodge took one look at the man's body, saw that there was life in it, picked him up and drove him to a hospital...
...Willa Gather fictionized his life in Death Comes for the Archbishop...
...Kiss of Death. A hard, cold yarn with Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, and vivid, real-life settings (TIME, Sept...