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Disappearance See also Abduction. Arden, Enoch missing for many years after being shipwrecked, returns to find his wife remarried. [Br. Poetry: “Enoch Arden”] submerged legendary island kingdom; never located. [Classical Folklore: Walsh Classical, 37] area of mysterious disappearance of ships and planes at sea. [Am. Hist.: The Bermuda Triangle] (1842–1914?) journalist and short story writer; disappeared into Mexico in 1913. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 294] (Joseph Force Crater, 1889–1930?) Judge of N. Y. Supreme Court; vanished August 6, 1930. [Am. Hist.: RHD] nephew of John Jasper; mysteriously vanishes. [Br. Lit.: Edwin Drood] (1897–1937?) aviatrix vanished in 1937 amid speculation and gossip. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 819] (1913–1975?) Teamsters’ boss kidnapped and presumed dead. [Am. Hist.: Facts (1975), 573] dauphin”; heir to French kingship imprisoned and probably abducted. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1617]
tracer of lost persons. [Radio: “Keen” in Sharp, IV, 354] vanishes after being shown to the hungry castaways. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare The Tempest] Carolina settlement that twice vanished, leaving no trace (1587). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 430] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Just as, to the bourgeois, the disappearance of class property is the disappearance of production itself, so the disappearance of class culture is to him identical with the disappearance of all culture. Palmer's disappearance was as complete as that of "old man Eckert" himself--whom, indeed, the editor of the local paper somewhat graphically accused of having "reached out and pulled him in. As was true of the general public, his chief interest in the matter centered about the mysterious disappearance of the slayer. |
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