Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idly he picks up a copy of Liberty, reads the way suggested by The President's Mystery Story for a man to disappear and take his vast fortune with him. Blake's execution of this incredibly far-fetched escape is on the way to success when his wife is suddenly killed by Capitalist Sartos' chauffeur. The crime is laid to the vanished Blake. When the corpse he has planted behind as his own is found, he is called a suicide, seems free from pursuit...
...funny papers, rubber-skinned monsters, all thrust in their grimacing faces and do their bits. One feels that they ought either to be Shakespearean or original, and it is just a little jarring to see the rubber men do a kind of Apache dance with the faerles, and then disappear in a manner so unnatural even for a fantasy that the brainless noisemaker behind us was led to comment, "I know how it's done. It's trick photography...
...That in four years the deficits of our cities and provinces would disappear...
...clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath her station, became obsessed with her husband's fighting ability, egged him into one fight after another, provided him with girls when his passion for her ended. Although these figures are sometimes vividly seen, they tend to disappear or grow cloudy as the descriptions of the customs and habits of mind of the "slummies" interrupt the narrative...
...Bible and the catechism into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for the Advancement of Learning" for fear that otherwise the true doctrines might disappear from the American soil when he and hiis fellow-ministers should lie in the dust...