Word: mortalizes
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...Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles as "the Wolf of Wall Street," "the Pirate," "the Robber Baron," "the Plunger" or "the Looter of the Erie") were generally terrorized by their little women, who in mortal rivalry built great houses which, after the next crash, became known as Somebody's Folly...
Germany was squeezing tighter the noose about the neck of her mortal enemy. There was no more resistance left in sagging old Marshal Pétain; in puffy little Admiral Jean François Darlan there never had been any. Vice Premier Darlan went to Paris during the week, got his orders, returned to pass them on to Chief of State Pétain in Vichy. The orders remained secret, but perhaps Vichy's Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon let the secret slip when he said that formation of a volunteer force to help Germany fight Russia "might...
...Hitler, with his tattered lackey, Mussolini, at his tail and Admiral Darlan frisking by his side, pretends to build out of hatred, appetite and racial assertion a new order for Europe. Never did so mocking a fantasy obsess the mind of mortal...
...Night in Lisbon is apparently a harbinger of what Hollywood is up to now that its propaganda pictures (Pastor Hall, Mortal Storm, etc.) have fizzled...
...undergraduate at Massachusetts Agricultural College, botanists were obsessed with taxonomy-classification of plants. But to Stone a tree was not a specimen but a dynamic organism influenced by a complex of environmental factors. In those days linesmen were stringing new telephone and power wires along U.S. streets, hacking mortal wounds in trees and often electrocuting them with leaky wires. New-laid gas pipes, too, were spreading out, poisoning roots along many a shady avenue. And several plagues of insect pests, chiefly in Massachusetts, quickened interest in guarding the health of trees...