Word: obiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Obit for a Fleet...
...obit had not yet been written. But last week "Purp" was dead. It had strangled in its own bedclothes. Under sheets and sheets of its own reports the Production Requirements Plan had smothered. In its thrashing, its own statistics had finally knotted around its throat...
Another editor once called Grover Hall "a fat radical advised by a cat named Clarabelle." Famous through the South was Clarabelle, Grover's office cat. When she died last fall, Associated Press put her obit on the wire. For the Advertiser Editor Hall wrote an editorial a column and a half long. Said he: "At this moment of sadness the Advertiser beseeches its friends and the followers of Clarabelle NOT to give this office another cat! The Advertiser is fed up on cats and does not wish to be bothered with another...
...plushy, luxuriant salon, famed for its influential patrons and for being the most orderly of disorderly houses, was closed by the U. S. Army in 1917, when Camp Stanley was set up on the outskirts of Lexington. Day after Miss Breazing's death, the Lexington Herald ran her obit on the front page. All copies were sold by 10 a.m., brought private speculators $1 apiece, provoked many a caustic phone call (Sample: "Is it true that to get on the front page of the Herald one must operate a house of ill repute...
...your obit of able Admiral Nicholson, under Milestones (TIME, Jan. 1) you say that he "was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones...