Word: morte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them for service in a new realm where intelligence and self-dependence were indispensable." What Dr. Canby did not say is that The Mint, in its general mood and in its unsqueamish record of obscenity, belongs with such contemporary records as Louis-Ferdinand Celine's untranslated La Mort A Credit (Death on the Instalment Plan) and Henry Miller's obsessed story of expatriates in Paris, The Tropic of Cancer. In the Library of Congress the two copies of The Mint are kept in the office of the secretary of the Library, mild, good-natured Martin A. Roberts...
...Crainquebille," picture of the evening, based on the play of that name by Anatole France, emphasises the futility of human justice. Crainquebille, who pushes a vegetable cart about Paris, is arrested on a false charge of shouting at a policeman, "Mort aux vaches...
Desperately looking back to his prison days, he shouts "Mort aux vaches!" at another policeman. When the policeman pays no attention to him he decides to end his life by jumping into the Seine. Befriended at the last moment by some Paris gamins, he goes off to live with them...
After the War, when the famed "Masked Marvel" (Mort Henderson) was defeated by Strangler Lewis, wrestling became comparatively unprofitable. Promoter Curley restored the sport to favor in 1929 by the simple device of having his performers shriek, groan, wave their arms, grimace and plunge out of the ring, instead of squirming calmly on the floor as is the practice of wrestlers who are solely occupied with winning...
Died. Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, 74, famed Alsatian-born composer (Mort de Tintagiles, Pagan Poem, Evocation); in Medfield, Mass...