Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faith and love?they will not die...
...sick but has been locked up in Belgrade Hospital for months, the Government not daring to throw him into Belgrade jail. As Pribitchevitches grew weaker last week the Government seemed to grow more relentless, suppressed all news of the hunger strike, seemed content to let Svetozar Pribitchevitch die. Then suddenly King Alexander relented...
...after being at 80 a few weeks ago. Startled pages and clerks hurried to put their summer linen-suits on a fortnight ahead of time. In Tokio, Japanese bears talked of harakiri. On the Coffee & Sugar Exchange, Manhattan, coffee continued its recent rise which had begun to die out; sugar started its first rally in months. Some $25,000,000 was added to the value of sugar supplies. Along the Gold Coast native farmers gathered in British villages to receive cable despatches which told the glad tidings of what was happening on the New York Cocoa Exchange. Cotton, despite...
...feel pleasantly dreamy at the mere mention of An der Schonen Blauen Donau, to lovers of the bustled, candlelit atmosphere of Die Fledermaus and the sprightly, stagily Hungarian Gypsy Baron, there was sadness in the news last week that the Johann-Strauss-Theater in Vienna had gone bankrupt. Not because of any association with Strauss and his works (the theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz...
...these words which open the chorus of the official Fascist anthem. But the accompanying music, though certainly no worse than that of many another patriotic song, is what Variety calls "umpa umpa stuff." It is more singable, more lively than "The Star-Spangled Banner" but immeasurably less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because a Fascist official demanded that Arturo Toscanini play "Giovinezza...