Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...columns of type and pictures reporting President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. the die-hard Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Harry Chandler is a staunch friend of Citizen Hoover, stubbornly called it Hoover Dam except when directly quoting the President and Secretary Ickes. The project has never been named by law. Construction was authorized by "The Boulder Canyon Project Act." but the actual site was changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon 20 miles distant. Customary procedure is to name a project after the act authorizing it, unless Congress decrees otherwise. Two Congressional bills introduced...
...Italy's ablest colonial fighter, lean General Graziani, was fighting harder and making more progress. Roads meant nothing in this rolling desert country where the advance was from water hole to water hole. Each hole was held by a little group of fanatical natives ready to charge and die at the first bang of a gun. It was slow and bloody business. General Graziani finally called out his bombing planes. Soon it was reported that the Italians were using a new, yellowish gas on the terrified Ethiopians...
...League of Nations! We fight and die while the League talks. ... If only we could fight men in the manner of men! But we are facing an invader who uses the most fiendish methods known to warfare all because he is angered that we protect our homes and land. Our lands are being laid barren by gas; our mules, sheep, and cattle are dying in the fields...
...ballets. 13 more than in the first winter. In the company there are 65 dancers, several of whom still travel with their fathers or mothers. In charge of them all is Colonel Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who was so determined not to see Russian ballet die out that he organized the troupe, named it "Monte Carlo" for Princess Charlotte of Monaco who gave him his first backing. Colonel de Basil's purse was almost empty when he first arrived in the U. S. But in the last year he has been able to buy three Fierce...
...Life (by Richard Maibaum. Michael Wallach & George Haight; Herman Shumlin, producer). Written with one eye on Broadway's hilarious Three Men on a Horse and the other on Hollywood, this farce exhibits the psychological rejuvenation of a grouchy department store tycoon (Gene Lockhart) who fancies himself ready to die. Three scheming vice presidents plan to insure his life, then talk him into his grave. Hastily summoned is a moony ager.t (Hobart Cavanaugh) of Good Life Insurance Co. who observes that "Life Insurance is Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions on a $5,000,000 policy. He makes...