Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politicians work, but also the chance to join in the fight through organizing rallies and doing field work. A volunteer may find that here as well as in a political club, he can waste time, but at least he will learn something about the inefficiency and graft which deliver mortal blows at utopian schemes...
...Miller in the hearts of a large number of his fellow citizens. He rediscovered the pull of the human interest story, the homely philosophical anecdote, the hushed heart throb. Having mastered his technique he proceeded to turn out He Went Away for a While and The Beginning of a Mortal. Now appears The Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner of a daily columnist...
Poland, Two men stepped from the shadow of a stairway in Warsaw's Club of Politicians and fired three mortal shots into Minister of the Interior Bronislaw Pieracki. As they fled, someone noticed that one wore a grey tunic like that of the National Radical (Nazi) party whose newspaper Col. Pieracki had suppressed dav before...
...husband died, had lived on the Gary estate at Jericho, L. I. When the apartment house was built, she returned to the address of many memories. She lived there quietly on her share of Judge Gary's $22,000,000 estate until, seven months ago, a slow, mortal illness laid...
...mortal head wound crumpled Larry Cappo, sleek little gangster, onetime prizefighter, night-club headwaiter, in the back of a wrecked sedan...