Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broken glass, past tar-paper shacks and sagging frame and brick houses where rents ranged from $12 to $30 a month. They ducked under clothes drying on lines strung across the alleys. A policeman waved a hand at the rows of backyard privies: "We found a man frozen to death in one of these toilets last winter," he told them casually...
...sense, Ambrose Metcalfe had courted death; he was a black-haired, buck-toothed gunman with insolent eyes and heavy fists and he had recklessly made enemies. Violent life and violent death had been a part of-Harlan County since clannish men with Anglo-Saxon names had settled in its isolated creeks and hollers after the Revolution...
...grew up in New York and got most of his education in Washington during his father's term as Resident Commissioner. He went to Georgetown Preparatory School, then began the study of law at Georgetown University. After his father's death he quit the law, before long was in New York trying to make his name as a poet and writer...
...support from the annual meeting of Hollywood's Mutual Admiration Society. Since the machinery that goes into the awarding of "Oscars" is complicated and expensive (all nominated films must be privately shown for the Academy's 5,000 members who then vote by mail) this could mean the death of the Great Gelded Gewgaw. And a good thing that would...
Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize poet and former Librarian of Congress, is now being considered for the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, vacated three months ago by the death of Theodore Spencer...