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...later, when their mother looked in on the room which they shared together, all five were gone. Calling on his neighbors for help, Father Moonsammy frantically searched the darkness for the missing girls. At dawn he found them. Silhouetted by the eerie morning light, their five young bodies hung lifeless from branches of two wild fig trees just 100 yards from their father's house. Amid the wailing of friends and neighbors, the police announced the cause of death: suicide...
...salesgirl, is an engaging contrast to Guinness' somber tweeds. As a sort of personification of the infinite possibilities offered by Paris in April, she burbles and bubbles over with joie de vivre. Next to her, even the sleek and well-tailored older woman of Elina Labourdette seems a bit lifeless, while Vernon Gray, the not-so-inexperienced son, almost appears to be wrapped in an English...
...feasible, but rather unpractical politically. The end result of such a local war might be that the unfortunate recipient of such protection would be effectively purged of all political colorations-purged so completely, in fact, that its territory like the shadow of its national soul would lie grey and lifeless, denuded alike of people, foliage and natural features...
...most readers, a collection of play reviews will seem as lifeless as a museum place, and about at topical. After the plays have left Broadway and the reviews safely consigned to the morgue, the drama critic would be better off writing an organized criticism of the American theatre, instead of arranging critical tombstones between cloth-bound covers. Eric Bentley, however, has seen fit to publish approximately fifty reviews, apparently in the hope that they will have both literary value and significance for American drama...
...sail from the Virgin Islands. Converted into a training ship, the brig was on her way home from what had begun ten weeks earlier as a routine cruise. But a terror unique in the U.S. Navy's history had mocked routine. From the main yardarm dangled three lifeless, hooded figures. They had been hanged by order of the ship's captain. Reason: alleged conspiracy to mutiny...