Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colors" every time. He named his headquarters the Greenpoint People's Regular Democratic Organization, welcomed one & all, but kept his telephone padlocked in a wire cage. He opposed Prohibition, cried bitterly: "It's a shame to allow whiskey to lie idle when there's people at Death's door that might be saved...
...killed storming a German machine-gun nest with a detachment of French Goums in Tunisia's Sedjenane Valley. The Silver Star was awarded to him posthumously. He had also been recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross but that was denied. At the time of his death he was awaiting court-martial for insubordination. They buried him near the spot where he fell...
...been in the U.S. before, I took it the visa would be readily forthcoming . . . I am preeminently the aging, kindly gentleman that should pass in & out of any county unnoticed." Actually, he was not that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America. But O'Donnell though he is a militant socialist and practicing Roman Catholic, had also helped found...
...Earl P. Haney of Winchester, Mass. was forced (by ulcers) "to give up a fine and highly paid position" and expect "a lingering death." He made what Author Carnegie calls a "rare and superb decision"; he set off on a round-the-world jaunt, taking his coffin with him. The undertaker has now bought back the coffin, and Mr. Haney, who stopped worrying en route, has "gained 90 pounds...
There had been a murder, or had there? She did not die at once, not dying as in death. She lived five days, five days dying, each day a dying but not dying as in death...