Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France came in, bringing letters and supplies from home; missionaries and trappers came from the wilderness with tall and terrible tales, but in Quebec itself nothing much happened except the change of seasons, the slow passage of time. Weary old Frontenac expected his King would recall him, let him die in France; the Auclairs were to accompany him home. But the King sent no summons. Death came for the Governor General in his draughty Canadian mansion; Papa Auclair resigned himself to Quebec, and Daughter Cécile married Trapper Pierre...
...picture is the beginning, in which Barbara Stanwyck puts on a nurse's uniform, repulses the advances of an interne, makes friends with a flip little blonde nurse, treats a bootlegger's bullet wound without putting the case on record and faints after watching someone die on the operating table. It is when she has become a graduate nurse that the picture becomes, without warning, a melodrama; but because the early sequences have made the nurse come to life as a character, there is no absurdity in this less plausible portion of a night nurse's memoirs...
Late at night the father got home, saw that his wife was dying. He sent for the doctor. The children, hearing their mother's screams, seeing the lights in the house, could not sleep. No one was bothering to look after them. Gradually they all crept home. Only Lisa, the eldest, had any clear idea of what it would be like to have their mother die, and even she was not sure; she was only a little girl...
Reminisced Hero Parke last week: "I thought the President was going to die right there.* I tried to speak to him but he could not recognize me. Mrs. Sarah E. White, the mistress of the waiting room, rushed up and lifted the President's head into her lap. He vomited a little. The station had been empty but the news spread and soon there were several thousand people about us. They got a Pullman mattress and carried the President to a room upstairs...
...Thou shalt not fear to die...