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Word: deathday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chaste white lambs pomped with ribbons looked at the Pope last week, on the anniversary of St. Agnes' deathday. They had just come from blessing in the Church of St. Agnes on the Via Nomen-tana, Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Agnes' Lambs | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...Unanimous headline in every newsorgan of the Soviet Union last week on Lenin's sixth deathday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Giant Strides | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Five thousand zealous believers in Lenin's maxim Religion is Opium for The People assembled on the eve of his deathday anniversary before the monastery, dwarfed by its enormous walls, resolute to destroy its high-spiried belfries. As the chief electrician stepped to the dynamite switch nothing could have been more appropriate than that old French revolutionary chorus "Vive le son! Vive le son!! Vive le son de I'explosion !!!"* But instead the Comrades roared their own Red Flag, their International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Giant Strides | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...debris, each of the 5,000 Comrades picked up as big a chunk of stone as he could carry, ran panting and puffing with it as fast as he could to the brink of the wimpling Moskva, plumped his burden in, watched exultingly while it sanka fitting deathday tribute to LENIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Giant Strides | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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