Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever a man high in Fascist favor dies, the procedure of His Excellency Benito Mussolini is the same. Dressed in braided morning coat and black silk Fascist shirt, he marches into the presence of the dead, stands stone still at Fascist salute for two full minutes, then turns on his heel, departs. His Excellency behaved thus a little over a year ago on the death of Marshal Luigi Cadorna, Italy's Wartime Commander-in-Chief, disastrously defeated at the battle of Caporetto (1917). Last week he gave his mortuary salute again at the bier of Minister of Public Works...
...keep his profession from extinction, to get his fellow practitioners out of jail, President Werner exhorted his colleagues to give their Bureau $25 each a week for an indefinite period: "Are we so yellow that we are going to let ourselves quietly die off while the medical profession mangles millions of our fellow beings?" For such defense the chiropractors last week contributed exactly nothing...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera changed its policy. began a series of Wagner matinees in which, for the first time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four and a half hours to perform, Siegfried four and three quarters, Gotterdammerung five hours or more...
...Died. Michele Bianchi, 46, first of the 1922 Fascist Quadrumvirate to die; at Rome...
...Mount Clemens, Mich., George Schwartz appeared in court to ask aid for his four children whom he claimed to be unable to support. "I'm sick, judge. I think I'm going to die," said he, whereupon he collapsed, died, was carried out of court. Quitter...