Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never saw her. Later she was taken in by Sir Joseph's family, so that she might become a good Catholic. But only one of the children remained orthodox: she took the veil as a penance for another sister, who had married a Protestant and was living in mortal sin because her children were being brought up as Protestants; for Stella, who married a divorced Protestant; for her brother, killed in the Great War without benefit of clergy. Sir Joseph became a religious maniac and his wife and only remaining daughter became his nurses...
...chair, complained of a toothache. The dentist found an ulcerated molar, extracted it. As Justice Sanford started to get up an attack of vertigo sent him sprawling to the floor. Alarmed, the dentist called a physician who administered a hypodermic stimulant which failed to relieve the judge's mortal distress. Unconscious, Justice Sanford was carried to his home on Connecticut Avenue. There, before noon, he died of acute uremic poisoning.* Five hours later, three blocks away, died William Howard Taft who was more responsible than any other for Mr. Sanford's appointment to the Supreme Court...