Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two days later Governor General Lord Cowrie asked him to form a cabinet. The big question was whether Mr. Menzies, who is forceful but not tactful, could get the conservative United Country Party to cooperate with the more liberal U. A. P. as Joe Lyons had skilfully done. As he...
* Killed (1922) in an automobile accident.
A serious casualty befell the Stahleymen when Doug Anderson, playing his first game since his spring trip injury, wrenched his ankle no badly that he will be unable to practice for at least a few days. Anderson's accident brings the sick list up to two, the other player being...
In "Wall Around a Pool," by Philip Brooks, the characters are of a somewhat higher social class (Harvard and Radcliffe, tall French windows, Atlantic Monthly) but they face a similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the...
Three scenes stand out as among the most dramatic in recent fiction: the collapse of a jerry-built building in which Paul's father is slowly drowned in concrete; an accident in which Paul's godfather plunges 20 floors from a skyscraper scaffolding; an all-night Italian wedding...