Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin on the issue of India's future status, resigned from the Conservative "shadow cabinet" on Jan. 27, 1931. He has since continued (with no appearance of success) his attempts (by loud public speechmaking) to get a wagging hold on the Conservative party through its die-hard tail, of which...
...rocket, an old professor who takes along his faithful companion, a caged mouse. Among the haggard caverns of the moon the backer of the party goes crazy and has to be shot. The professor discovers gold and is lost in a crevasse. The lovers stay behind to die on the wastes where nothing has ever died or been born before. Director Fritz Lang and his scientific colleagues have made a vigorous Vernesque fantasy and used every resource of the camera in photographing it. Good scenes: the pock-marked moon-face swimming up, nearer and nearer out of space; the point...
Proclaimed Senator Robinson's colleague, Senator Caraway: "Every day we wait, 1,000 people die of starvation.* Somebody is dooming American people to a premature death. I'd like to know who are the ones playing politics at this time...
...successfully romantic poet nearly alienates the affections of his wide audience by failing to die young, at the appropriate zenith; finally realizing what is required of him he announces his death, spends the rest of his life in hiding...
More smug than the Boston Herald's haggling over the die-hard principle is its blanket statement to the effect that there is no suffering throughout the drought stricken area. How can such sweeping optimism be entertained by a newspaper almost two thousand miles away in the face of the fact that the representatives in Congress for that area are clamoring for help for their constituents. Whether these demands for aid are a political move or not does not excuse the Boston Herald from appearing to play a political game...