Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Curtis Stephenson, Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in 1924, is in jail for life. He attacked a girl...
Several times each day the struggle between Death and Life was bulletined. Perhaps the world will not soon see again two doctors of such courtly and Victorian distinction as those who signed each bulletin thus...
...England knew that Queen Victoria lived to the age of 80 in Sir Stanley Hewett's care. The great Queen's Grandson, George V, was but 63 last week. His death, thought Britons, would be a sad commentary on the wages of virtue and an upright life. Those Royal libertines, George I, George II and George IV, all died at the age of 67. That Royal part-time madman, George III (reigned 1760-1820; mad 1788-89 and 1811-20) lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would...
Inevitably the life of George V was poignantly recalled by his subjects in the sad waiting hours. He was a second son, a "sailor Prince," and only the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, placed him in succession to the throne. While stationed at Malta, as a young midshipman, he was on terms of blameless intimacy with Mary Seymour, daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour. And, years afterwards, in 1910, it was libelously published that he had morga-natically married her, prior to the death of the Duke of Clarence. In 1911 the King, with great...
...subject to his superior, Minister of Justice Louis Barthou. But year followed year and M. de Paris was never raised. Recently Mme. de Paris, desperate and confident in the potency of a woman's nagging, approached the Minister of Justice, spoke volubly anent the high cost of Life, the low wage of Death. Last week, her confidence was vindicated. Her husband's salary was raised to a still paltry...