Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your erudite readers aid an oldTIMER, and tell us how many moujiks? and did they live or die? and was it wolf or wolves...
When the hangman came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...
...Grannich laughed hysterically, was too overcome to speak in English, shouted: "Ich hob aruntergenummen die shich jar alle menschen?" (I removed my shoes in front of all the people...
...Majesty, famed as "the only man ever born a king,"? has thus a peculiarly valid reason for wanting to die a king...
...earned a certain notoriety by motoring from Cannes to Paris and back when automobiles were practically unknown. After Lucia they changed their minds. Lily Pons, they found out then, was not big-chested and chunky like most Lucias. She was fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead...