Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Want To Die. Famed correspondents with the Leftists, such as New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, who have kept cabling during the 20 months of the civil war that bombs only temper the morale of the people and spur them to greater resistance, last week reported new facts...
...wailed Mr. Matthews' hotel chambermaid, after living through the first twelve air raids in barely 24 hours. A Barcelona drugstore clerk from whom Mr. Matthews was buying medicine for a headache, sighed: "Oh, for a plane to fly to France! I don't want to die...
...Digest's angel still hovered uncertainly in the offing. So President Havell extended the suspension for two weeks more. Hopefully, a test letter to 10,000 subscribers pleaded: "Literary Digest is not just another magazine; it is an American Institution of major importance. It cannot be allowed to die. . . . We ask you to put a dollar in the enclosed return envelope. . . . Your dollar will be credited to your subscription as an increase in rate...
...middle-class snorted with vexation at news that Socialist Blum had said "the Communists represent 1,500,000 citizens of France, so they cannot be ignored," and Radical Socialist National Defense & War Minister Edouard Daladier had chimed in, "Since a Communist soldier is considered good enough to die for France, I fail to see why there should not be a Communist in the Cabinet. I am sure that all Frenchmen will fly to the frontier, as they did in 1914, in case of menace from abroad...
Rests here on earth, for die it will...