Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Edinburgh by the 4th & 7th Dragoon Guards (a regiment of cavalry combining the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons and the 7th Dragoon Guards or Princess Royal's). Henceforth, in order to keep up with the pace of modern war, members of the regiment will go forth to die or be maimed not on plunging chargers but in armored cars. In its last mounted parade before mechanization, the regiment heard Lieut. General Sir Charles Grant read a message of consolation from its honorary colonel, Major General Arthur Solly-Flood...
Where Miss Thompson excels is in enthusiasm. "I know now that there are things for which I am prepared to die," she writes. "I am willing to die for political freedom, for the right to give my loyalty to ideals above a nation or above a class. . . ." Miss Thompson's other offers, in print, to die: (for Austria; rather than accept fascism...
...Die Walküre (Sat. 11 a.m., NBC-Blue). Part of Act I by short wave from the Bayreuth Wagner Festival...
...saying during the conflict between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire was: Qui mange du Pape en meurt ("Who eats of the Pope, dies of it") Today most Catholics interpret "die" as "die spiritually...
...front engine over an embankment, piled four of the five coaches up on each other in a splintered, twisted mass like a smashed accordion. The coaches lay crumpled for hours in a river bed till cranes could be got into the mountains. Most of the injured were expected to die. It was the deadliest train wreck in West Indies' history...