Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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House gallery, slung one leg over the railing, brandished a .38 calibre revolver and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I demand 20 minutes to address the House. Whoever tries to stop me will die. Is that understood? I want to be heard." Twenty feet below on the floor the House was taking a teller vote on a minor appropriation amendment. At the gallery gunner's outcry the hundred members present were seized with honest panic. Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats...
Cinemagoers who saw Air Mail recall the furtive pilot who early in his career, had 'chuted from a floundering transport, leaving his passengers to die. At Long Beach, Calif, last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...
...Italy, had caused the retreat from Caporetto to be deleted is untrue photographically, the Caporetto sequences are the most effective in the picture. The report that Paramount had given A Farewell to Arms a happy ending has more truth in it. A conclusion in which Catherine Barkley does not die in childbirth was made but will not be used unless cinemaddicts resent the present one. Informed by Paramount that two prints of A Farewell to Arms could be sent to Piggott, Ark. for his inspection. Author Hemingway last week replied: ''Use your imagination as to where...
...author of the plot has taken the idea of "Thirteen Women," which crime club addicts remember as the grisly melodrama of Frauenzimmer from a sorority who were all condemned to die mysteriously one after the other. This ingenious device is applied to five gentlemen traveling in Morocco, who impolitely resist the demands of an old beggar for baksheesh, and are therefore cursed with a fate which shall overtake them in order before the next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death...
...joker in his policy which also rules out payment in case of "acts of God." In Shanghai last week officials of three British insurance companies were far from nonchalant. They had received letters (wrapped around bullets) which threatened to bomb their offices and were signed by "The Prepared-to-Die Group of Shanghai Calamity Sufferers...