Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while, the family differences were drowned in merrymaking. With Communist and Catholic relatives Angelo celebrated too well. He collapsed with a heart attack, and last fortnight he died. His last wish had been that every Catholic organization in the market district should send a delegation, with its flag, to his funeral...
...Marshal of Verdun and Vichy, now sharing his exile on the Ile d'Yeu, brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
...Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan and grandnephew of Lord Macaulay, young George grew up in a rambling mansion in Shakespeare's Warwickshire. He was a "queer, happy little boy," who would play soldier ("Napoleonic period") by the hour, and could recite the Lays of Ancient Rome by heart. At school, he was happiest arguing the Roundhead cause against his pro-Cavalier school chums, or wandering about some nearby battlefield with his history-minded house master ("O boy, you oughtn't to have a hot bath twice a week; you'll get like the later Romans...
Died. José Clemente Orozco, 65, one of the Big Three (with Rivera and Siqueiros) of Mexican art; after a heart attack; in Mexico City. In his youth, a firecracker blew off his left hand and seriously damaged his sight, but intense, contentious "El Abrojo" (the spiny cactus) managed to win fame as a mural painter...
Although her parents sent her to cooking school ("with the idea that I should be a good housewife"), Lisa had her heart and her nimble feet set on dancing. The town still remembers how, in a school play, she stole the show dancing the role of an Oriental slave...