Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round-trip tickets, claims thus to assure that all will return, actually makes the suicide pay double for his ticket to Death. Far too poor to pay President Hayashi 3 yen (85?) for a ticket to Suicide Point, many of Tokyo's suicides, which average four per day, die super-cheaply by eating rat poison...
...control. As a result of this strict plot limitation, only the death of any who block her heroine's way can lead to a happy ending. And death stalks the pages of Mrs. Norris' novels as grimly and certainly as in a Greek tragedy. Two have to die in Woman in Love. First Tamara's seducer, Mayne Mallory, kills his wife. Then, after he has tried to blackmail Tamara's George, a lawyer, into taking his case through the courts, Mayne gets his own come-uppance when his victim's husband knocks him down, inadvertently...
...investigating a Bronx garageman's story of repainting Hauptmann's "dirty green" sedan shortly after the crime, and that a Manhattan cinema theatre cashier would say that Hauptmann passed her a $5 ransom bill at a date before Isidor Fisch left the U. S. to die in Germany. Hauptmann's story is that Fisch left the money with him, that he did not "dip into" it until Fisch sailed away...
...20th Century music. Stravinsky's father, a basso at the Maryinsky Theatre in Petrograd, encouraged the boy so long as he was content to remain an amateur. He went dutifully to the University to study law but his marks were consistently poor. At 20 the die of his career was cast when the great Rimsky-Korsakoff took him for a pupil...
...rate of 2,000,000 per year. But Chevrolet has outsold Ford in six of the past eight years, and the last million-car year at River Rouge was 1930. Last year Mr. Ford had a head start over Chevrolet, which was delayed by the tool & die strike. Yet in combined truck and passenger car sales Chevrolet again nosed out Ford. The most famed U. S, industrial box score (estimated for 1934 on eleven-month domestic sales) reads as follows...