Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite two years after her death, executors of the estate of Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean asked court permission to sell some of her $591,107 worth of jewels so they could pay debts and taxes. Among the baubles: the fabled Hope Diamond, once spoken of in terms of millions, now appraised at $176,920. Last week's new figures also indicated that the McLeans bought it on credit in 1912 for $100,000 ($20,000 down, $1,000 a month...
...little spryer. There seems no possibility of learning how to keep the heart, blood vessels and kidneys in first-class working condition deep into old age. But, asked Dr. Leake: "Do any of us want to? ... Will it not be possible for us some day to realize that death is a part of life...
...coal are laboriously mined (at costs averaging $2.50 a ton), dumped into ovens and distilled, producing gas. For 80 years, scientists have been thinking of producing the gas without bothering to mine the coal. Lenin, picking up a British suggestion, wanted to try it in Russia. Since his death the Russians claim to have produced this kind of cheap power in many places...
Last fortnight, Bishop Herrera himself gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...
...CRIMSON'S article on the Cirrotta death last Monday, three of the paragraphs attempted to point...