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Word: die (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...jury got it done fairly quickly. Within eight hours it was back with the regular verdict of guilty but decided that Defendant Patterson be spared the electric chair, to spend the next 75 years in prison. "I'd rather die," scowled Patterson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Get It Done Quick | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...giving away his pal to the police for the reward, attempting to drown his remorse in a night of mighty and generous carousal, and finally, confronted with the incontrovertible fact of his treachery, fleeing the vengeance of his pal's friends, only to be shot down and to die a bewildered repentant at the foot of an altar, is a source of wonderment. One can only regret that his histrionic ability has not been utilized before. With his powerful physique and mobile, ugly countenance he is excellently adapted to this tale of an inexorable destiny marching with ever increasing rapidity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE PARAMOUNT AND FENWAY | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

...tell him. His feelings are entirely in accord with mine. The year 1935 was an exceptionally good year for him. This year 1936 will be less good for him. He will shortly suffer a setback. Thereafter his comeback will be tremendous. He will live a long time and die a great statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Premier's Privat | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...warned. Andrew Garth was serious about his whistling. Oldtime vaudevillians could make a living imitating canaries or mocking mocking birds. Andrew Garth was appearing as a concert artist, ambitious enough to undertake the Mad Scene from Lucia, a Schubert sonatina, the first-act love music from Wagner's Die Walkiire in which he took turns at being the orchestra, Sieglinde, the soprano, and Siegmund, the heroic tenor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whistlist | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Ceiling Zero (Warner), a crisp adaptation of last year's successful stage play, is not apt to whet the average citizen's appetite for flying, despite the moral that pilots are brave men willing to die for Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 27, 1936 | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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