Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into cancer growing flowers and turning stones to bread: such things Author Eckstein depicts with the intense exclusiveness of a Japanese print. The reader, with the Doctor, will wonder what lies beyond his pictures' boundaries -it must be a dazzling landscape in which such sparkling details live and die...
...screen did likewise. Perhaps the screen turned first, for It's Tough to be Famous was withheld from the public for several weeks because of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., captain of a disabled submarine, having saved the members of his crew is prepared to stay submerged and die. Rescuers pry him off the bottom of the sea and into a more embarrassing if less dangerous predicament. He is welcomed ashore in a paper blizzard. His roommate grabs his pajamas for a souvenir. A manager (Walter Catlett) makes him read effusive speeches to women's banquets...
...Philadelphia's Fortnightly Club and the Mendelssohn Club; an orchestra of 125 pieces, six soloists and Conductor Stokowski, for whom there appears to be no musical enterprise too colossal.† Philadelphians approached it doubtfully. They were wary of Stokowski's modernistic mood. Schbnberg's awful, shrieking Die Glückliche Hand was still in their minds (TIME, April 28, 1930). But Gurrelieder proved to be neither ear-splitting nor bewildering. It began like Wagner in his tenderest mood, Wagner as tie described the forest murmurs in Siegfried, the love of Tristan and Isolde, of Siegfried and Briinnhilde...
Yale's robustious, tweedy Professor Yandell Henderson last week recapitulated his researches on lungs. Because Professor Henderson has emphasized the function of carbon dioxide in breathing, post- operative pneumonia may often be prevented, and newborn infants need no longer die when they cannot cry vigorously enough to ventilate their lungs...
...trunk that, on rainy days. Author Van Vechten's mother reached off a shelf for him to rummage in. Thinking now of that tin trunk, with its daguerrotypes and snippets of family hair, he remembers placidly that his maternal grandmother, who smoked a pipe, prophesied that he would die on the gallows. She had her reasons. Once, to compel his mother's attention, he snatched a kitchen knife from her by the blade so violently that he still bears the scar. "A similar perversity drove me to grasp potted plants by their stems and to dash them to the floor...