Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammering of the past months, not even the bitterest opponent has belittled the Hoover mind. The intellectual stature of him is too patent. . . . It is wide thinking, it is fast, it is intuitive, it is as accurate as a die, it is flexible, it is creative...
Greatest danger is pneumonia which follows anesthesia. Least is explosion. Three to five surgical cases out of every 1,000 die of pneumonia. Only one out of every 100,000 die from explosions...
Lord Biskerton, known to his pals as the Biscuit, was son & heir (ah empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt...
...home season ended last week and its annual tour began. Two special trains and 18 baggage cars carried 300 souls and a million-dollar equipment to Boston, where big Emma Redell of Baltimore sang Elsa in the opening performance of Lohengrin. To follow were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde, Aïda, La Navar-raise and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Tannhäuser, Otello...
...straw. Son of a parson, Powys is much concerned with village religion, but his Rev. Silas Dotterys, Rev. Mr. Gassers do not always behave in an orthodox pastoral manner. Rev. Mr. Dottery, for instance, once hinted broadly from the pulpit that he felt it inconsiderate of his parishioners to die at his dinnertime; the hint was sufficient. Parson Sparrow, whose predecessor's morals had been lax, found to his dismay that the more upright he was, the wickeder became his people. In humble desperation he went a-walking with gay Betty Wing, and the villagers trooped back to church...