Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peerages and baronetcies are hereditary, knighthoods die with the holder. A baronet bears the title "Sir" by right. A knight is "Sir" by courtesy. In ascending order of rank, peers (members of the House of Lords) are barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, dukes...
...direct the anti-bandit campaign! If I succeed I will retire to my birthplace near Ningpo-thereby proving to the world and to the nation that I have no ambition to establish a dictatorship nor another dynasty, as charged by my reactionary enemies. If I fail, I will die fighting...
...board chairman of the old school, is Basso Witherspoon. His gallant mustachios have greyed in later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime Red Cross work, then taught...
...FLAW IN PAGANISM Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never...
...when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared war on Germany, she went to Manhattan, amused herself with many a departing soldier, gob and leatherneck. She further amused herself by sending her ex-husband a memento of each occasion. When her mother began to die, Nasa went home. As you leave her she has not taken on anybody new, but there is someone in the offing...