Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently a new French Government orders the Dreyfus case reopened and the prisoner is acquitted. In real life Zola lived on for three years before he was asphyxiated by a leaky flue. In the picture he dies on the eve of Dreyfus' reinstatement in the army. His epitaph, pronounced in the Pantheon by Anatole France (Morris Carnovsky), gives the picture a magnificent last line: "He [Zola] was a moment in the conscience...
...five. What his next part will be is not known. With the completion of Zola, Muni began a long vacation. In October he and his wife will start on a trip round the world, avoiding war zones. During shooting of Zola, Muni gave several intimations that Zola's epitaph in the film might mark his own permanent farewell to Hollywood. The possibility of his retirement at his career's crest is not taken seriously at movie colony dinner tables. Last week Muni seemed to be of two minds. "I am going away for a while," he said...
...Montfaucon Memorial tourists can peer across five miles of the world's bloodiest ground to Meuse-Argonne cemetery. There lie buried over 14,000 U. S. soldiers, most of them under alabaster crosses, a sprinkling of Jews under the six-pointed Star of David. Some have for an epitaph Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier known but to God, which is also graven over the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Theirs the largest U. S. cemetery abroad, containing almost half the bodies not returned to the Motherland...
Their bodies were found next morning- near the main highway, the one to Jack-sonville-five miles out. "THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL NEGROES WHO HARM WHITE PEOPLE," was one epitaph inscribed on a piece of cardboard beside the bullet-ridden Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...
...story that The Ashes, famed prize of Australia v. England cricket, do not really exist is a canard. After Australia's first victory over England on British soil in 1882, a sportswriter in the London Sporting Times wrote a facetious epitaph for English cricket, announced that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. Any chance that Britishers would ever stop relishing this grisly little quip was effectively destroyed when England's dashing Ivo Bligh, who captained a team that beat Australia the following year, brought back an urn full of real ashes. He explained...