Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death, as it must to all men, came last week to Cass Gilbert, 74, architect, in Brockenhurst, England. Had not a sudden heart attack laid him low in a bedroom of pleasant, rambling Balmer Lawn Hotel, he, his wife and daughter would have left in two days for Southampton and the U. S. Behind him Cass Gilbert left many a great building to keep his memory alive through many a long year...
...long as it remains a comedy of manners, Glamour is a workmanlike production. But its sudden change of pace to a tragedy of morals proved too much for Director William Wyler. Typical shot: Linda and Victor assuring each other that they "don't want to be melodramatic" as they say goodby...
...World War . . . has shown that armaments are an incentive, one of the main causes of war. . . . No reason for war remains except sudden profits for the 50 men who run the munitions racket. . . . The first real step . . . is the destruction of the world-wide munitions racket. It will cost millions of dollars. It will save millions of lives...
Drug companies have flooded the land with Dinitrophenol (usually under its right name, but one company calls it "Formula 761") and many a druggist sells it without prescription. Last fortnight two cases of sudden death from overdoses of the drug were reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, one of a young woman in Los Angeles who followed directions on the box and died violently within a week...
Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...