Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drama in the coal fields of Harlan County, Kentucky, assumes the proportions of American tragedy when Theodore Dreiser waves the crusader's flag. Sheriff deputies are paid by the mine owners; houses of strikers are dynamited and burned. Children die, seven or eight per week; nobody is indicted for the killing of twelve miners while forty to fifty miners are indicted for the killing of three deputy sheriffs. Miner's pay is forced down to eighty cents a week; three thousands out of the eighteen thousand miners are blacklisted. Local officials regard themselves as the agents of the mine owners...
...die dee de dee (Tee-die...
...die-hard traditions are often those which are of questionable value, Mr. Reinhard long ago left the Harvard precinct but his name lingers on and seems to be growing in acclaim by the Yard...
...patch it up with his wife, Ezra returns. It is hard for him to forget four years of carnage. "That's always been the Mannon's way of thinking," says he. "They went to the white meeting house on Sabbaths and meditated on death. Life was a dying. Being born was starting to die. Death was being born to live." As the next grey dawn shadows his sleepless bed, Ezra Mannon is "born to live." Christine poisons...
...TWILIGHT OF A GOD. He couldn't die, who never lived. So he outlived his day. From his place in the car cards he looked down, each day, upon a rising tide of soft shirts. At last they engulfed him completely and he was swept away. His passing is viewed with mixed feeling...