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Word: die (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon hundreds of picketers were pacing before the Briggs plant, bearing such banners as: "We want a minimum wage or we will walk until we die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Body Strike | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...with music by German Composer Kurt Weill, Victorian settings. Last week's showing of L'Opéra de Quat' Sous was interesting for other than sentimental reasons. Famed George Wilhelm Pabst who directed it also made a German version of The Beggar's Opera (Die Drei-groschenoper) of which censored portions were shown in the U. S. two years ago. Last week's U. S. premiere of L'Opéra de Quat' Sous, which like Die Dreigroschenoper was vastly successful in Europe, was also the premiere of a newly born organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Cinema | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...nothing, but "money gave him power and power is becoming to a man." Tom was gentle with her, kissed her a few times, then went away. Sally was heartbroken, tried taking a hot bath in her nightgown and sitting beside an open window, hoping to get pneumonia and die. She did not die, but a truck hit her one day and when she woke up she wanted to live. . . . Years later she met Tom in a speakeasy. "Of course I remember you. Do you know my husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...Davies (nothing from Huxley's late great friend. David Herbert Lawrence). Significant of the pendulum-swing of modern taste are the admiring references to Tennyson and Browning, frequent quotations from them. As an example of unconscious literature Huxley gives the farewell note of a suicide: "No wish to die. One of the best of sports, which they all knew. Not in the wrong, the boys will tell you. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aldous' Acquaintance | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...TELL YOU EVERYTHING-J. B. Priestley & Gerald Bullett-Macmillan ($2). That box-for its contents men die, kingdoms totter, the sanctity of a good woman is at stake. An earnest young professor pursues it. learns to swashbuckle, to lady-chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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