Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular weekly meeting this afternoon voted in accordance with the unanimous recommendation of the Judiciary Committee of the Undergraduate Council to suspend indefinitely the students identified by County Solicitor Robert A. Jones as having been the members of the group present at the incident leading to the death of Raymond J. Cirrotta...
What impresses oldtimers (and boosts membership, now 1,300, at a rate of 15 to 20 a day) is Sylvia's knack for picking winners before they reach Broadway. Among her selections: Edward, My Son; Life With Mother; Anne of the Thousand Days; Death of a Salesman; Kiss Me, Kate. For this month she has chosen Sidney Kingsley's promising Detective Story. She has also closed a deal giving her members seats for April's South Pacific, whose author-producers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, are notoriously fussy about what happens to their tickets...
...night before his death in 1799, George Washington sent one of his slaves from Mount Vernon to fetch the latest copy of his favorite daily newspaper-the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...
...tormented by jealousy, insists on dictating her weekly letters. Caught up in their infatuation, the lovers defy the protests of their parents and friends. For them the war is a precious parenthesis. When it does come to an end, Marthe dies giving birth to a son. Her suffering and death also give birth - too late - to Fran...
Come, Sweet Death. All this is said with such politeness that many people may put down this little book without fully realizing what a deadly kick in the teeth of western culture it is meant to be. If culture is what Eliot says it is, and can be nothing else, then it is plucking at the coverlet in Britain and virtually dead everywhere else, including the U.S. But this is exactly what Eliot's Notes says-that another Dark Ages is just around the corner...