Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this piqued the die-hards in the industry, they had cause to ponder too. For Bill Douglas, though disclaiming any further death sentence plans "because of our belief that the substantial companies in the industry are making progress" in designing such reorganizations, also declared: "This action on the part of the commission means the commission means business...
...letter was addressed to Zweig in Vienna, but Zweig did not receive it. At the Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read it. While Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and other prominent Nazi disciplinarians boiled with rage, Composer Strauss went quietly on with his work. But when Die Schweigsame Frau was finally performed in Dresden, Librettist Zweig's name was absent from the programs, and Nazi critics were hostile. It was immediately dropped from the repertory. Months later, Strauss resigned as head of the Musikkammer...
...BEAST MUST DIE-Nicholas Blake -Harper...
...detective stories under the name of Nicholas Blake-well-plotted affairs such as There's Trouble Brewing and A Question of Proof. This week, his latest murder mystery appeared with both his name and pseudonym on the jacket. This may have been self-protection, for The Beast Must Die revolves around a writer of mystery stories whose carefully guarded pseudonym gets him into no end of trouble...
...Beast Must Die tells the story of Mysterymaker Frank Cairnes, known to thousands under his pseudonym but to few by his real name, after his son is killed by a hit-&-run driver. Slipping into his ready-made disguise, Cairnes set out to avenge his son, soon finds himself involved in a conventional dilemma-one of seven suspects in a murder case, all with unsatisfactory accounts of their actions at the time of the killing. The mystery is literary because its solution depends largely on a critical analysis of a piece of writing: a sensitive detective finds revealing insincerity...