Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...August 1932, five Nazi bully boys trampled a man to death in front of his mother. Up-&-coming Party Leader Adolf Hitler hailed the murderers as heroes. Next day Headmaster Kurt Hahn of Germany's Salem (pronounced Zah-lem) School (near Lake Constance) notified every graduate that the time had come to choose: "Break with Hitler or with Salem...
After his mother's death, Gide finally married Cousin Emmanuèele. She is the prototype of characters in several of his books, always as a devoted friend, with a long-suffering piety and a love of God that Gide sometimes found irritating. Em, as Gid e refers to her, is an off-stage character in the Journals. Critic Georges Lemaitre says of Emmanueéle that "when she came to understand his moral perversity, she shrank from him and 'took refuge in God.'" The Journals prove that she had unusual endurance. She died...
...Fontaine's fables by heart and later founded a literary review (L'Arche) in liberated Algiers. A stream of bigwigs came to his bedroom-study to pay their respects. Communists in the Algiers Consultative Assembly paid theirs by asking that he be tried and put to death. In the spring of 1945 he returned to Paris...
...Manly Smile. Each chapter is constructed as rigidly as a classical sonnet around a single major "hazard" to the hero or heroine, and invariably ends just as death's jaws close. Serial writers ran out of hazards years ago, have been working switches on them ever since; the loose cotter pin on the stagecoach, for example, has been used an estimated 7,000 times...
...grand finale, a life & death chase staged in a War Surplus warehouse, is full of the ingenious low-comedy ideas which practically nobody seems to be able to think up these days. The desperate obstacle race takes place among instantly inflating life rafts, stockpiles of prefabricated barracks, bouncy camouflage nets, a regular holocaust of naval flares. It's good, fast, noisy fun; but the good comic ideas are never really milked of their possibilities as they used to be by Chaplin and Keaton and Lloyd...