Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long lines of grey-clad soldiers stretch irregularly across the dawn-lit horizon. Armed guards, in muskrat headgear, move restlessly before swaying tents. Bonfires die out with each growing moment of dawn. Arms are gathered, stations called, ranks formed. Excitement and anticipation fill the camp. A huge gaunt figure, hatless and cloakless, sweeps imperiously on a white charger to the front of the newly formed platoons. This man commands attentions, respect, admiration, fear. Ranks become straighter, shoulders stiffer, guns arched higher. His voice booms like a cannon through the crisp morning air: "Comrades, this is an historic moment. All Europe...
...novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess, by the author of God's Stepchildren. Non-Fiction...
...lined with stalls from an abandoned church. He would surely show Il Duce where he spends his days of solitary contemplation, the chamois-lined Chamber of the Leper which it sometimes pleases him to call the Cell of Pure Dreams. Here on a simple bier the Poet plans to die...
...that Britain's frontier must be on the Rhine. In a brilliant swing around Europe he had kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
Fraternity men throughout the land had their eyes on Yale last week. There, where the college fraternity system took early root, it seemed about to die. First, Alpha Delta Phi said it would pledge no new members this year and Alpha Delts said privately they would probably close their house, disband the chapter. Few days later Psi Upsilon said it was turning in its national charter, to become a local, nonsecret club...