Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doldrums of a warm June week, G.O.P. leaders made one decision. They would not adjourn Congress sine die on July 31. Instead they would recess until next January, with the provision that Congress could be recalled by either the majority or minority leadership. Republicans felt they could not leave the country in sole charge of Harry Truman. They wanted to be ready to rush up like a bucket brigade any time next fall if fire broke...
...Cancer, there is even less hope: 92 to 98% of patients with known stomach cancer are doomed to die within five years. If caught in time, cancer can be cured by surgery, but by the time stomach cancer is detected, 80% of its victims are beyond the point where an operation will do much good...
From there on out, unhappily, the story is just a series of clumsy, apologetic scenes which hurry Miss Tierney across enough time to die a natural death and thus qualify for Captain Harrison's ghostly embraces. The film's whimsy is a bit heavy-handed and it is short on wit, style and ingenuity. Yet most of it is pleasant enough fun, and pretty to watch. Harrison, apparently modeling himself after Bernard Shaw as a boy of 40, sports a handsome beaver. Miss Tierney wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini...
...dishonest man again. Again his wife calls him to heel; this time they move to a ranch. There isn't even a telephone and Mr. Young can't stand it. Because of his complicated efforts to run away but stay rich, both Miss Johnson and Miss Hayward die, and he is suspected of murder. In a courtroom, he tells his whole shameful story in flashbacks, understandably sure that nobody will believe...
There are thousands of items as curious as these. Author Randolph says that although the old notions die hard, many of them are in fact dying: "Wherever railroads and highways penetrate, wherever newspapers and movies and radios are introduced, the people gradually lose their distinctive local traits and assume the drab color which characterizes conventional Americans elsewhere...