Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apply the indeterminate sentence to all criminals. Under this system a prisoner is placed on parole as soon as he is fitted for the responsibilities of civilized life. And he is not released until a competent examiner is fairly certain his disease is cured. A confirmed criminal will therefore die in prison--a separate prison where he will not contaminate his fellows--and society is saved the trouble of his crime and his recapture...
...will not strike a blow; we will die, for it is God's law. ... The police have been given the power of magistrates. They wrest the salt from our hands by breaking our fingers, but we should not give up our salt. Even if our hands are bleeding ... we should not retaliate. God is our protector...
...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...
...Died. Cosima Wagner, 92, relict of composer Richard Wagner (Die Meistersinger, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Parsifal), daughter of Composer Franz Liszt; of old age; at Bayreuth, Germany, locus of Wagnerian Festivals...
April 22-Performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps and Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand, by the League of Composers and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski; at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...