Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer-for-revenue outlook is better in the House than in the Senate where such Dry die-hards as Texas' Sheppard and Idaho's Borah can blockade action by talk. House Democrats who have announced their readiness to promote a quick beer vote include Majority Leader Rainey, Chairmen Collier of Ways & Means, Byrns of Appropriations, Pou of Rules...
...himself on the day that 1) his son is born. 2) the bank closes its doors because he, the teller, has certified $400,000 worth of dubious checks. The son grows up to look exactly like Richard Dix. He goes to War, becomes an ace, causes his grandmother to die of joy when he returns. The picture ends in the panic of 1929, with old Richard Dix in shaggy makeup signing over $5,000,000 to young Richard Dix to keep the bank from going under...
...been known to die from the poisoning, but no one has been known to recover from the paralysis, said Dr. Maurice Isador Smith last week. Dr. Smith, 45, is the National Institute of Health investigator who two years ago traced the widespread "ginger jake" paralysis to tri-ortho-cresyl-phosphate adulteration. (Manufacturers and vendors have been jailed.) His information about Europe's poisoned apiol was the first revelation to U. S. womanhood of danger in that direction...
MURDER AMONG THE ANGELLS?Roger Scarlett?Crime Club ($2). Aging twin brothers die in a high-walled old Boston house. The will, the triangle, the marked money?these are well stirred into smooth murder...
...there he had sat and seen great Enrico Caruso enact the bearded Jew in Halevy's La Juive, the last performance Caruso ever gave. There he sat the night plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell; the night Geraldine Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night...