Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrange to meet him. Some times it was at a drugstore across from the Willard Hotel; some times it was at the National Gallery of Art. Did Remington understand what she wanted? Said Elizabeth Bentley: "Certainly." At their meetings, Remington was "very nervous, very jittery, obviously scared to death that anybody would find out he was doing this." But, said Miss Bentley, he brought her "scraps of paper"-notes about aircraft production-and once he brought her "a formula for making synthetic rubber from garbage...
After Hillman's death they began to move. In September 1946, they staged the Madison Square Garden rally at which Wallace, pleading for peace, denounced U.S. foreign policy...
...years before World War I, fierce-eyed, mustachioed "Professor" Ivy Baldwin was as famous as many a king. He was a tiny man (5 ft. 3 in., 112 Ibs.), but he had a fine sense of balance and a vast contempt for death. He toured the world making balloon ascensions and parachute jumps. He dived into nets from incredible heights. He walked high wires with the ease and insouciance...
...sent him to, trying to make horrible love to her, and eventually killing his father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain the violence-and insanity-after death; its weakness comes of pushing this suggestion too far, implying that no human kindness or decency could survive modern warfare, and thus turning what might have been a tragic moral struggle into a necrophiliac nightmare...
...merchant uncle, John Hancock inherited a fortune, an interest in 20 ships, a vast mansion on Beacon Hill, with one of the loveliest gardens in Boston. He graduated from Harvard, worked in his uncle's countinghouse, visited England, returned to Boston two years before his uncle's death, and took over the business in a year when trade declined...