Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond's every word with awe and rapture, now forgot him. Their talk was medical talk. Their tragedies were medical tragedies. Their jokes were medical jokes. My and what poor jokes medical pleasantries are. If a quip is to have any point at all someone has to die...
...heavier-than-air phase, too, of Britain's military aviation is suffering evil days. Last fortnight brought the death of famed speed flyer Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 41st pilot of the Royal Air Force to die by crash since the first of the year. In London last week the Marquess of Donegall charged that Lieut. Waghorn and many another R. A. F. flyer would be alive today but for the "obsolete" type of parachute issued by the Air Ministry. This 'chute, he said, is not guaranteed to open under 800 or 1,000 ft. But Lord...
...girl watches a wounded Confederate die all night long in her kitchen, gives first her bed and then herself to the exhausted soldier sent to bury...
...many of them still runs the blood of Koor. When Gipsy Noke kills the highwayman he instinctively tries to placate the ghost as his ancestors did. And nothing could be more prehistoric than the love-making of Tom Shellett and his half-sister Charity. The Squire marries, gaffers die, murder is done and bastards begotten, but every evening the village worthies gather at the inn to have their tankards and their talk. And here, Author Bullett implies, is Life; the rest is mere incidental History...
...schools and class teams as possible opponents. However, after a brief period of vigorous agitation, the idea was apparently forgotten for the time being. A short while later both Yale and Harvard adopted the game. With their example as an incentive, agitation was renewed here last fall only to die out again when no official action seemed forthcoming...