Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of the local duke. This gentleman seeks to pacify the Don by humoring his delusions. The old Knight of the Mournful Countenance, however, detects a slight, wanders off once more to joust with windmills, returns home to find his books ablaze and to die. Photographed by Nicolas Farkas, who directed The Battle (TIME, Dec. 3), Don Quixote is at its best when it is purely pictorial-the brilliant whites and gloomy greys of Spain; the noble nose, the gaunt cheek, the scraggly whiskers of the Don whose addled pate wears a barber's lather-bowl which he thinks...
...guests of the Kerns Hotel. Soon after fire had broken out in the night, the tindery old hotel was roaring from end to end like a well-kept fireplace. For 20 minutes women with hair and clothes ablaze ran screaming up & down the halls while men leaped out to die on frozen sidewalks or in the ice-coated little river to the rear. Then the floors collapsed and all screams ceased. Only trace of Senator Leidlein in the charred ruins was his key ring...
...Royal Institute of Chemistry. As a chemist, he scoffed at "the popular fallacy that to blow combatants to bits with high explosives is less bestial, wicked and cruel than to attack them by gas." President Levinstein strongly implied that rather than be blown to bits he would prefer to die gassed...
...Stam's brother Jacob said: "We know we will see our dear ones in Heaven, and while there are tears there is an undercurrent of joy, because we know the way of the Lord. They were worthy to be in His service and they were worthy to die a martyr's death...
Last week in Manhattan's Union League Club, a die-hard Republican organization which, after the Civil War, used to send carpetbaggers South to round up the Negro vote, was launched a drive for money to build a new Lincoln library, dining hall, and gymnasium, make many a campus improvement. President Johnson announced the $1,000 check from Alumnus Brooks as the first contribution, put it up as bait for $399,000 more...