Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side, were dragged into the main street. A A rope was put around the neck of each and the free end was thrown over the cross bar of a lamp post. Strong arms pulled, the ropes slid over the bar, and the two figures hung inert and lifeless in midair. The crowd cheered...
Great men die and are laid to rest with all the pomp and ceremony due them. Monuments are erected, grim, ugly things, with great names carved in cold, lifeless stone, incompatible above all things with the vitality, the enterprise that made their owners mighty. In August, 1919, a great man died in Manhattan, was given pompous Jewish burial from the Temple Emanuel. He had his monument of stone. Last week his son announced that he would build another memorial, one more worthy of his father. The son is Arthur Hammerstein, famed Manhattan theatrical producer, son of Oscar, famed impresario...
...read in the Boston Herald Mr. Stillman's letter to the CRIMSON in which he opposes "the suggestion of having a new chapel, since worship is irretrievably dissociated from Harvard . . . and at best a rather sterile and lifeless affair"; going on to propose as more appropriate the endowment of "a Chair to promote the abolition...
Apropos of the student poll about a suitable war memorial, I oppose the suggestion of having a new chapel, (since worship is irretrievably dissociated from Harvard) and also the suggestion of a monument, because such a memorial is at best a rather sterile and lifeless affair...
Soldiers seized Koeff, who-on the verge of collapse-continually protested his innocence, although he had previously admitted it. The noose was thrown over his head and, a few seconds later, his body was dangling lifeless at the end of the rope...