Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other survivor, Katherine Schaub of Newark, reacted to her death sentence as did the men of Jerusalem who, when their city was in danger about 712 B. C., made merry, slew oxen, killed sheep, ate flesh, drank wine, shouted: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!" (Isaiah 22: 10-13.) Miss Schaub took her $10,000 cash and bought two motor cars. She amused herself at mountain resorts and hotels. She wrote a book, Gambling With Radium, and when her publishers advised her to improve its literary style, she enrolled as a correspondence pupil at Columbia University...
...Princess de Broglie is therefore free to marry whomever she likes but the court, because she is so very eccentric, delayed her nuptials by appointing a committee of physicians to investigate her sanity. Said the aged Princess last week: "I want to spend a few happy years before I die. I want to marry Luis...
...Treaty opponent, refused to surrender. He saw his little band of followers subside in silent discouragement. His own voice went hoarse with overtalk-ing, but he lost none of his valor. Cried he: "I ask no quarter. I know no way to fight for my country except to die for it. ... I will present, god willing, as long as I am able, the inequities and iniquities of this Treaty. I'm going to bat just as hard as I can. Go on with your majority! Put on your cloture! I make no agreements! I will go on as best...
...basis. They asked him to name the price at which his half of the stock might be sold in event of his death. Publisher Haines demurred, suggested they likewise name a price for stock. Said the Ridders: "There are eight sons in our family. The Ridders never die...
First and loudest to speed the departing publishers was the News, which, although "Ridders never die," had doubled its circulation since they came to town...