Word: stillborn
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When Patrolman George Mayne answered a call for police at a Philadelphia home a fortnight ago, he found Thomas Hughes, 22, sadly pointing to a newspaper-wrapped package on the kitchen table. In it, said Hughes, was the body of his premature baby daughter, stillborn an hour or two before...
...good novel might have been written on Miss Buck's theme, a good one on Ullman's. Neither writer has succeeded. Both are content with liberal formulas, stillborn characters, slipshod styles...
...Late. He tries to repair his broken marriage, but it is too early for him and too late for his wife. She has a stillborn son, and dies soon after. Here the story ends. In a pathetic postscript to it, addressed to the son he never knew, the hero finds a moral in his experience...
Iranians could use such a non-political mission. For years they have been oppressed by the landlordmerchant governing class; taxes are regressive, administrators corrupt, and famines frequent. Honest and progressive elements are powerless against the numerous, well-heeled special interests and all reforms eventually end up stillborn...
...moment and the tickle of the flesh." Apprenticed to Colonel Cassius Fort, a rousing linsey-woolsey lawyer who was leading the poor farmers' fight for "relief" from land debts, Jeremiah fell in love with Rachel Jordan, who had been seduced by Cassius Fort and delivered of a stillborn baby. At first she refused him. Then, in a series of extravagantly emotional scenes, Jeremiah finally wore down her resistance. She agreed to marry him on one chilling condition: "Kill Fort...