Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Corinne's mother: "That man simply pestered her to death." The Dallas County grand jury, having pondered all these things, declined to return an indictment. No one in Texas was surprised. Corinne took it well...
...Confidence in its chief is the first condition of success. You know me and I know you, and I know the whole country is ready to fulfill its duty unto death...
...last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are busy at home weaving nets for artillery camouflage. The special naval rank of "Skipper" is accorded their captains, and when they talk with His Majesty's officers they don't bother to salute, remove pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work...
...anti-Comintern peace in the West-a peace in which Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain would join together against the U.S.S.R.-and was merely strengthening Russia's land and sea approaches against the day when the "land of workers and peasants" would have to be defended unto death. Another theory was that Dictator Stalin was determined to restore to his country the lands that belonged to the Tsars. If so, then Rumania's Bessarabian territory would be next after Finland on the list of conquests...
...North China death came to the old fox who was for many months Japan's greatest hope as a potential puppet-Marshal Wu Pei-fu, jovial poet, patriot, warlord. The Marshal died after an operation for an infected tooth. For a long time he led the Japanese to believe he would take the job they offered, but when the time came for his formal acceptance (at a party to which foreign correspondents were invited), he said to the Japanese, in effect: I shall become a puppet on the day when you little men go back to your little islands...