Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next he shot himself, but lived. Last week he was in the hospital at Hyeres, reluctantly alive and detachedly wondering what state and social judgment would be on his matricide. He wrote a long letter to Le Matin, outstanding Paris daily, explaining his deed, admitting his "guilt," urging that, come what might to him, the law be changed. "I regret nothing," he said...
...must to most magazines carrying little advertising, Death will come next month to the resolutely literary Dial. Reasons for the demise were not forthcoming last week from the Dial's "adviser," Scofield Thayer, or from Editress Marianne Moore, or from President James T. Watson Jr. They simply announced that publication would cease after the July issue...
...African Kings were gathered at Cape Town to do homage to the Prince of Wales, present King of England. Dean went there, organized a private reception for the Kings. He got them to swear friendship, fealty, each to each, in a dozen dialects. Not only, however, did no help come from the U. S., but one night, soon after the reception, the warehouse containing Dean's whole fortune in ostrich feathers mysteriously burnt down. The feathers had not been insured. Dean's life work lay in the ruins...
Simple enough was the explanation-"too much wheat." About 350 million bushels have been carried over from last year's harvest. The winter wheat crop has begun to come in, is estimated from 625 to 650 million bushels...
...eight of the last nine annual meets of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, a track team from California has come out on top. Last year and the year before the winner was Stanford. Last week, on Franklin Field in Philadelphia, it was Stanford again, with 45 3/8 points, the highest total since...