Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in the time of the Greeks Dora and Willy would at birth have been left to die from exposure. In the middle ages they might have been held in curious homage since there was a superstious belief that such cases were visitations of the gods...
...Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk would seem a rural innocent (TIME, Feb. 11). The adulterous Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck is a colorless nobody compared with Alban Berg's Lulu, a symbol of insatiability conceived in the tortured mind of Playwright Frank Wedekind (Erdgeist, Die Büchse der Pandora). Sooner or later Lulu is bound to make her operatic appearance because of Composer Berg's reputation, the power of his music. Orchestral excerpts from Lulu have been played at the Berlin Staatsoper where extra police squads governed the crowds. Last spring fragments were...
...ever written. Its conclusion : "It is said that war is human nature- that we always have had wars and always will-I do not believe it. Something can be done about it. God knows it is human nature to have syphilis. Nothing could be done about it but to die horribly until one man after six hundred and six tries found that something could be done. Maybe there is no one thing that can prevent another war but I do know that if everyone who has any feeling in the matter at all, said what he felt in no uncertain...
...year-old husband Jake a hunchback a year ago, Mrs. Boegler wrote Mrs. Oley, "Tonight I will pray to God to cause your boy to suffer great agony. I'll ask God to burn him with fever and lay the hand of death upon him." Ablino died. When Mrs. Will Ray cut off the Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned Mrs. Ray that she and her husband would get sick. Mr. Ray nearly died, of no apparent disease...
...family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right, thank-you-mam. . . . Pete won't care much. She's kissed everbody they is aready . . . and I'll stand there and watch them go down and they'll die lookin up and bein afraid...