Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appealing to the membership of the House to let us adjourn this session immediately." Mad applause from Democrats and Republicans alike. A day passed and "Bras" Deen offered a privileged resolution: "Resolved . . . That the two Houses of Congress shall adjourn on Tuesday, the 23rd day of July, 1935 . . . sine die." Up jumped Rules Chairman O'Connor, moved to table the resolution. Speaker Byrns called for those in favor of tabling the motion: a chorus of "Ayes." Then he called for those opposed: a much louder, heartier chorus of "Noes." "The Ayes appear to have it," opined Speaker Byrns. Representative...
Maybe St. Paul could help them with his Romans 14:14 & 22, or his Titus 1:15. Of course I would not refer our Puritanical brethren to I Corinthians 7:36 lest they die of shock. This old world must retain a few things to laugh...
...Kansas City, 2,000; and Philadelphia 1,500." This news was datelined from Manhattan and Afro's correspondent added with some scorn that Harlem had supplied only 850 recruits, "while Boston, the cradle of U. S. freedom and the home of Crispus Attucks, first American to die in the Revolutionary War, has enlisted only...
...when, hardly out of New York harbor on the 5.5. Oriente bound for Havana, they fell in with a voluble group of Manhattan intellectuals. Leader of their new friends was Clifford Odets, able young left-wing author of three (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) of the twelve plays now running on Broadway. Among Odets' 14 companions were a Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national women's debating champion, a War veteran. The Negroes danced with Mamie and Regina. The intellectuals informed the girls that they were...
...have ever been married, you know how I felt," the old Crow told Ethnologist Lowie. Had he resisted or taken her back, he would have been forever disgraced. When Gray-bull stole a wife in turn, her last husband, ravaged with grief, became a Crazy-Dog- Wishing-to-Die, pledged to court death. Dismayed, Gray-bull returned his new wife, whereupon the husband broke his pledge to die, was always looked on with contempt...