Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the bedroom tiptoe two stealthy men. Miles Forrest and John Dighton. husky hirelings, heap the bedclothes over the boys' heads. Edward manages to fight free for a moment, get a bloody clout in the face. Squirming and kicking, the boys die under the smothering hands. Sir James Tyrrell, a discontented gentleman in charge of the job, hastens to report to his employer, Richard Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the boys. Gloucester, a crafty, ruthless, sharp-featured scoundrel who drags a foot is already calling himself King Richard...
...Montevideo conference which began Sunday, Secretary of State Cordel Hull has as his purpose not only the establishment of amicable relationships among the Latin American countries, but the revival of a Pan-American Trade Union, once mutually beneficial, but which has in the last decade been allowed to die a lingering death...
...base of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky, will render Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," a serenade in four movements for string orchestra. Brahms' Symphony No. 3 will follow, and after the intermission will be played "Divertissements on a Pastoral Theme," by Pierne, and the Norfolk Rhapsody, by Williams. The Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" will conclude the program...
...deadening things. Anyone who has the task of interviewing a former actress of repute . . . might just as well be an undertaker. My idea of real happiness is to find some small corner of the world, crawl into it, and never again see my name in the paper until I die...
...distillers given the choice of accepting an arbitrary code or facing the threat of a government sales corporation. No theory of social expediency was advanced in support of Federal liquor control, and observers concluded that it was merely another manifestation of the Brain Trust's passion for centralization. Die-hard Drys were more pleased than they had been all year...