Word: thees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Emma Littlefield Moore, 53, retired actress, wife of Actor Victor Moore who played "Vice President Throttlebottom" in Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake; of pneumonia; in Farmingdale...
...save ourselves by uttering a long quavering squeal the way Tarzan does when he and Jane get chased from pillar to post by his jungle pals. What, then, shall we do? Shall we put our trust in Roosevelt the Righteous, paint ourselves blue and sing 'NRA, my God to Thee, a Gentleman's Marks Are CCC, ERA, ERA, CWA!' Shall we be Nazi men with Hitler, or start Lenin toward the five-year plan? There is a problem for the long winter nights. What shall...
...Aimer Kelly intoned Biblical texts. At the prison washhouse, the procession stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...
...hundred yards out in the bay, the champagne bottle slipped out of her hand. Three hundred yards out, she caught up with the yacht, grabbed her bottle as it bobbed by, smashed it on the bow at the waterline, spit out a mouthful of salt water, choked "I christen thee Segochet...
...Biblical effect. The book ends with the death of Rachel, just after the birth of Benjamin. Her last words: " 'Now all burdens have been taken from me, childbearing, life-bearing, and in it is the night. Jacob, my husband, forgive me that I was unfruitful and brought thee but two sons, but yet two, Jehosiph, the blessed, and the little one, the son of death. And ah, I am sore to go from them. And from thee too, Jacob, I am sore to part, for we were the right ones for each other. And now thou must muse alone...