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.

: which died at the Oval

He had suffered from prolonged heart problems for some time and died about 2: 00 PM of sudden and irreversible cardiac arrest from the heart attack at Lisie Hospital in Ernakulam, where he had been hurriedly taken after fainting while celebrating Mass at noon at his chapel in the Major Archbishop's house, in Ernakulam.

He died at Topkapı Palace in Constantinople and is buried in a mausoleum right outside the walls of the famous mosque.

During the four years of his reign disaster followed on disaster, and in 1695 Ahmed II died at Edirne Palace, worn out by disease and sorrow.

He then retired to the Kafes previously occupied by Mahmud and died at Topkapı Palace after six years of confinement.

In November 1885, Alfonso died, just short of his 28th birthday, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo.

Bayezid II was born in Dimetoka Palace ( now Didymoteicho ) in Thrace as the son of Mehmed II ( 1432 – 81 ) and Valide Sultan Mükrime Hatun, the daughter of Süleyman Bey, the sixth ruler of Dulkadirids, who died in 1492.

She died on 24 March 1603 at Richmond Palace, between two and three in the morning.

In 661, Saimei died in the Asakura Palace before the army departed to Korea.

He had three children by Matilda ( Edith ), who died on 1 May 1118 at the Palace of Westminster.

Murad died in the Topkapı Palace of Constantinople in 1596.

He died at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople.

He was born in the Manisa Palace, the brother of Ahmed I ( 1603 – 17 ), who died because of typhus at a young age.

He died sixteen years later in the Topkapı Palace of Constantinople.

Mary was weak and ill from May 1558, and died aged 42 at St. James's Palace during an influenza epidemic that also claimed the life of Reginald Pole later the same day, 17 November 1558.

When Clement II died in October 1047, Benedict seized the Lateran Palace in November, but was driven away by German troops in July 1048.

Gregory XV died in the Quirinal Palace on 8 July 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant ' Ignazio.

Together with Ernst Augustus, she greatly improved the Summer Palace of Herrenhausen and she was the guiding spirit in the creation of the gardens ( which still exist ) surrounding the palace, where she died.

Kinross also says that Selim's reputation for drunkenness was solidified in his decision to invade Cyprus rather than supporting the Morisco Revolt ( 1568 – 1571 ) in Granada as well as in the manner of his death ; Selim died in the Topkapı Palace after a period of fever brought on when he drunkenly slipped over on the wet floor of an unfinished bath-house, getting a head injury.

Elizabeth died childless at Richmond Palace on 24 March 1603.

When Emperor Ichijō died in 1011, Shōshi retired from the Imperial Palace to live in a Fujiwara mansion in Biwa, most likely accompanied by Murasaki, who is recorded as being there with Shōshi in 1013.

Her most famous creations were the Winter Palace, which she commissioned and oversaw the construction of but died before its completion, and the Smolny Convent.

He repaired the Lateran Palace and the Vatican at enormous cost, and erected a beautiful country house at Soriano nel Cimino near Viterbo, where he died of a cardiovascular event ( sources differ on whether it was a heart attack or a stroke ).

On 23 December 1660, when William was ten years old, his mother died of smallpox at Whitehall Palace, London while visiting her brother King Charles II.

* The Episcopal Palace was the place where Pope Pius II died in 1464.

Louis XV died on 10 May 1774 of smallpox at the Palace of Versailles.

Born and died at Greenwich Palace.