Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With William G. Kirby '35 conducting, the Glee Club will give its last Yard Concert of the year on the steps of Widener. The program will include the Chorus and Finale from "Die Meistersinger" by Richard Wagner, Three Love Songs of Brahms, "Spanish Ladies," an old English Folk Song. The soloist in this selection will be Robert L. Bishop...
Deep-rooted in lonely Emma's mind is the notion that humans' when they die, are reborn as animals. Beginning with this seemingly absurd assumption, Thames Williamson creates a series of remarkable coincidences which strengthen the old maid's belief, builds them up to a thoroughly dramatic conclusion which will satisfy the reader who has opened the book with some hesitation...
Deadly Emotions. Compared to doctors and others who realize how destructive diseases can be, very few insane people die of diseases like angina pectoris, in which strong emotions play a part. Reason: the intelligent person understands and worries about his condition, and it gets worse; the madman has no such worries. To doctors, Dr. Donald Gregg of Wellesley, Mass. gave this advice: "Let us lessen our emotional load by avoiding excess of emotional stimuli, by slackening our pace, or bearing it intermittently; by avoiding excessive specialization thereby lessening our dependence on others, and by developing our knowledge of facts...
...companions know that he is about to quote the words of William Butler Yeats. Nearing three score and ten (he will be 70 on June 13), Poet Yeats has written enough and well enough in his long life to satisfy most men. But few poets are willing to die before their time; though his Muse is not as young as she was, Poet Yeats still invites her to his board. His latest collation was slim pickings-a one-act play, a dozen poems, a few pages of commentary-compared to the poetic feasts he used to set forth...
...daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half-German). For 17 years she lived at the Russian court, waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die, waiting-what was worse-for her neurotic husband to make her his wife. The first nine of those years they lived together, and Catherine did her wifely duty as her husband saw it: at night, in bed, she helped him play with dolls, in the daytime at soldiers. Because...