Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week the New York Herald Tribune published a cartoon by Jay ("Ding"') Darling captioned "The Fates Are Funny That Way." It pictured a wreck at a railway crossing ("36,000 Die in Auto Crashes Every Year!"); a scene in an operating room (''Prominent Senator Succumbs to Emergency Operation!"); a street accident ("Pedestrian Killed Crossing Street!"); a row of dead lying beside a table ("Poison Food Kills 469 at Old Settlers' Picnic!"); a volcano erupting ("Earthquakes, Floods, Cancer and Pestilence Kill Thousands Every Day!"). Beneath this billboard of horrors appeared a citizen, newspaper in hand...
...Great War was utter social insanity, and was a crazy war, and we had no business in it at all. . . . Senators, the time has come to put an end to that sort of hellborn business if we wish to preserve the Republic. I do not want my boy- to die to further enrich some American millionaire...
...what it is all about. If the doctor hands a patient a prescription written in the best medical Latin, it is the duty of aforesaid patient to hotfoot it to the closest apothecary shop: have same duly compounded as the Great Man has ordained; and take T.I.D. [ter in die, "thrice a day"] strictly according to directions. Not his to reason why. His but to get well if Mother Nature is willing; or to die...
...governors to keep their hands off, India will have been reborn-or "unfrozen" as onetime Viceroy Viscount Halifax declared recently with enthusiasm. The native cabinets will have sway within India's vast borders and even control the police, a feature of the new Constitution which has given Tory Die-Hards the jitters. True, so great an authority as Lord Halifax has observed: "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed," but they necessarily will be formed and their members will be Indians. The new Constitution also calls for provincial legislatures chosen by 14% of the adult population...
Kerensky was willing, but die-hard Allied ambassadors refused. After the Bolsheviki seized power, Thompson, who preferred them to dictatorial counter-revolutionists, urged that they be recognized and persuaded to carry on the War. Rebuffed on all sides, the disillusioned millionaire returned to Wall Street, where he stunned his colleagues by speaking warmly of the Soviets in the midst of a Red scare, declared wistfully that as a capitalist he could get along better with plain workmen than with politicians & lawyers. His unique position was not understood. He became known inaccurately as the man who had given a million dollars...