Suddenly there was a commotion upstairs, a despairing boyish shriek, and the strains of the waltz faltered and died as the musicians and guests gaped at an apparition descending the marble staircase.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

`` W. O. Wolfe, prominent business man and pioneer resident of this section, died shortly after midnight Tuesday at his home 48 Spruce Street '', the Asheville Times of Wednesday, June 21, announced.

For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.

Back in Bavaria he had seen that gesture, and at that sight his heart had always died within him.

People died, she would have said, in hospitals, or in cars on the highway at night.

He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity by liquor and the excitement of the moment, performed a perfect swan dive out of the stands at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, landed squarely on his head on the concrete ramp below, and died at once.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

Funeral services for Mrs. Kowalski and her daughter, Christine, 11, who died of burns at the same hospital Monday, have been scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Anne's Catholic Church, 31978 Mound, in Warren.

Raymond E. Killingsworth, 72, died Sunday at his home at 357 Venable St., Aj.

John William Ball, 68, of 133 Marietta St. NW, Apartment 101b, died Sunday at his home.

Mrs. Lola M. Harris, a native of Atlanta, died Sunday at her home in Garland, Tex..

Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 NE 50th Ave., who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p.m. at the Riverview Abbey.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

He died in Los Angeles at the age of ninety-six, and is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.

Suffering from angina, Nobel died at home, of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1896.

" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

McCluskey died at the age of 75, not as a result of exposure, but of a heart disease which he had before the accident.

Poirot's first appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( published 1920 ) and his last in Curtain ( published 1975, the year before Christie died ).

The other account is found in Deuteronomy 10: 6, where Moses is reported as saying that Aaron died at Moserah and was buried there.

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" As for Chrotilda, in Gregory's words she died on the journey home " by some ill chance ".

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

On his way home Agesilaus died in Cyrenaica, around the age of 84, after a reign of some 41 years.

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

In 1955, Fleming died at his home in London of a heart attack.

When his eldest daughters died of consumption in 1825, Maria on 6 May and Elizabeth on 15 June, Charlotte and Emily were immediately brought home.

He was found and brought home, but died soon afterwards.

Even Houbraken recalled that Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.

A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.

Ahmad Shah retired to his home in the mountains east of Kandahar, where he died on April 14, 1773.

She died on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008 of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida.

Garry Mitchell, a grandson of Diddley and one of more than 35 family members at the musician's home when he died at 1: 45 a. m. EDT ( 05: 45 GMT ), said his death was not unexpected.

Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.

Thirsty's, a gas station on M-55 west of Cadillac, was the home of Samantha or " Sam The Bear " from the 1970s through the late 1990s, when Sam died of old age.

Ramsay died on his way home to Australia, leaving a shocked Norris to discover that his mother had actually rejected Ramsay as a child and sent him away.

C. L. Moore died on April 4, 1987 at her home in Hollywood, California after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

He died on June 30, 2001 at his home in Nashville.