Word: defunction
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...long it would be before the policy of Pan-American solidarity got its first real test. From Barranquilla, Colombia, where she had been anchored since the war began, sailed the German freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
...with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power of Labor. The reconstruction of the world, he declared, must come about "through harnessing the rising masses of Labor, to whom the future really belongs." "Pink-tea diplomats" and "court-circular society" he dismissed as adjuncts of an already defunct age, while stridently demanding equality of opportunity in tomorrow's Britain. "If a boy from a secondary school can save us in a Spitfire," he declared, "the same brain can be turned to produce a new world...
...Moorman seldom pauses over the art of his defunct patients, but to critics he offers the disturbing observation of his colleague, Dr. Arthur Clarence Jacobson: "The decline in tuberculosis coincides with the decline in creative writing...
...September 1918, two months before the Armistice that brought World War I to its weary end, Everybody's Magazine (now defunct) published an article by a Texas-born newspaperman and novelist, Eugene P. Lyle Jr., predicting World War II. Laid in the future like one of H. G. Wells's fantasies, it was called The War of 1938. Lyle's story was a forthright piece of propaganda. His object in The War of 1038 was to discourage talk of a negotiated peace, persuade the Allies to crush Germany altogether...
Died. Marcus (Emperor Marcus I) Garvey, 52, Jamaica-born Negro leader of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement; of a paralytic stroke: in London...