Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power of Labor. The reconstruction of the world, he declared, must come about "through harnessing the rising masses of Labor, to whom the future really belongs." "Pink-tea diplomats" and "court-circular society" he dismissed as adjuncts of an already defunct age, while stridently demanding equality of opportunity in tomorrow's Britain. "If a boy from a secondary school can save us in a Spitfire," he declared, "the same brain can be turned to produce a new world...
...Moorman seldom pauses over the art of his defunct patients, but to critics he offers the disturbing observation of his colleague, Dr. Arthur Clarence Jacobson: "The decline in tuberculosis coincides with the decline in creative writing...
...September 1918, two months before the Armistice that brought World War I to its weary end, Everybody's Magazine (now defunct) published an article by a Texas-born newspaperman and novelist, Eugene P. Lyle Jr., predicting World War II. Laid in the future like one of H. G. Wells's fantasies, it was called The War of 1938. Lyle's story was a forthright piece of propaganda. His object in The War of 1038 was to discourage talk of a negotiated peace, persuade the Allies to crush Germany altogether...
Died. Marcus (Emperor Marcus I) Garvey, 52, Jamaica-born Negro leader of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement; of a paralytic stroke: in London...
Died. Marcus Garvey, 53, Jamaica-born Negro leader ("Emperor Marcus 1") of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, purple-gowned head of the Sublime Order of the Nile and the Knights of Uganda ; in London. He organized the Black Star steamship line to transport his people to their homeland, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, subsequently deported...