Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking of poverty, slum life, marijuana, liquor-urged him to commute the sentences of the five women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder in the holdup of a Manhattan gambling house.* When Governor Lehman had heard all, he solemnly shook the mothers' hands, took a last look into their five anxious faces (see cut), promised to ponder his decision...
...judge of international morality is Mr. Armstrong. He is more interested in expediency than in ethics. "It is not for an American to say that Englishmen or Frenchmen should fight and die for causes which do not seem to them vital," he writes. Chief U. S. interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
Informed of the death on Christmas Day of 48-year-old CzechoSlovakian Dramatist Karel Capek (TIME, Jan. 2), 82-year-old Dramatist George Bernard Shaw exclaimed: "Why did he die? Why not me? ... It seems almost absurd that an old man like me should continue living while youngsters like Karel have to pass...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) returns to conduct the NBC Symphony in Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony, Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Loeffler's Memories of My Childhood, Wagner's prelude to Die Meister singer...
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis, and Johann Hermann Schein: Motet "Die Mit Tranen Säen" (Motet Singers, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 4 sides). In 1700, grand old man of European music was a Swedish composer and organist named Dietrich Buxtehude. His quaint, archaic Missa Brevis is as deft and complicated as a Renaissance tapestry. Composer Schein's motet, added for good measure, was written about half a century earlier...