Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post mortem proved premature. Next day Attorney Bottomly, 34-year-old principal in a group of "public-spirited" buyers, met again with Fox and got a 24-day option to buy the Post (for a reported $1,500,000). Bottomly put up $100,000 for his option, agreed to settle the Post's $44,000 back income-tax bill; Fox promised employees some $35,000 in back pay. With its Sunday edition, the day-old corpse resumed publishing...
...Stark Fact. By that time the post-mortem was well under way. Because the vote in the Democratic Party was more than twice that on the Republican side, Stevenson sought comfort in his own interpretation that the big news from Minnesota was "a smashing repudiation of the present Administration...
...team. They were impressed by recent trickles of medical evidence that women in the latter part of the menstrual cycle not only have cellular changes but are more prone at that period to commit crimes of violence and experience emotional instability. They checked 47 coroners' cases, and post-mortem examinations made it possible for them to determine at what stage of the cycle death had occurred...
...tavern, while omitting to mention that he also wrote plays," said Historian Harold Nicolson, who admitted to his own prejudice against Lawrence. "A mere mass of faults, however competently exposed," said Lawrence's onetime superior, Sir Ronald Storrs, "adds up not to a portrait but to a post mortem-the portrait of a hero on the dissecting table...
Ultimately, both religion and psychology fail in their earthly mission, as Rose escapes her dilemna with suicide. In the last scene, however, a philosophical post mortem takes place, in which Greene contrasts the pessimism of the psychologist with the hope of the priest. Reinforcing this contrast is the subordinate theme of the heroine's two maiden aunts. Both Catholics, they have attempted to escape thoughts of death by closing all rooms in which their relatives have died. Presumably, Aunt Teresa's final decision to sleep in the living room where her niece has committed suicide represents Greene's idea...