Word: epitaphed
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...Cordell Hull last week promised the Government of Free China that there would be no more extraterritoriality in China, from Shanghai came the perfect epitaph for Shanghai's plutocracy. It was not the work of a taipan but of brilliant, crotchety British Lawyer Ranald McDonald, an ornament of Shanghai's bar and bars. At the Council's April meeting he had shrilled a speech that might have been drafted either by Mr. Pickwick or an early Shanghai missionary...
...five-year survey of Neville Chamberlain's remarks on the British armament drive makes a poor epitaph for one whose family served the Empire in high station for 64 years...
...Akim Tamiroff deserve honorary memberships in Tammany Hall for their superb performances. Preston Sturgis, author and director, ranks with Judge Seabury as a tiger-killer. But perhaps it would be better to say that while the good judge did the actual killing, Mr. Sturgis has written a magnificent epitaph...
Last week, to a chorus of backslaps and compliments, Selznick International formally announced its dissolution. After a weekend together at Whitney's Saratoga estate, Whitney and Selznick released to the press the S-I epitaph. "It is with profound regret," they said, "that we feel that the risks involved, due to world conditions, made it desirable for us to take this step...
...stands listening to the Albany train whistle. He says it is on time. That is all there is to Our Town, the picture. Our Town, the poem about the American village, has meanings which do not end there. Poet Edgar Lee Masters caught them in five lines of an epitaph in Spoon River...