Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ashurst, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has publicly referred to himself as the "Dean Emeritus of Inconsistency," said to reporters: "If any President so far forgot himself as to appoint me to the Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench-because I would die of surprise." Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. "I'll not only send you my autograph," said he, "but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had-a set of my speeches...
...December day in 1933 when Repeal killed the 18th Amendment, Manhattan theatre critics made an almost unanimous critical suggestion. They suggested that Tobacco Road be relegated to Cain's warehouse, morgue of plays that die aborning. Reviewers wrote off the play's characters as scum, the play itself as "clumsy, rudderless, callow, repulsive...
When the tumult and the shouting die away from the palazzo Venezia where Mussolini recently announced his withdrawal from the League of Nations, his action will be seen as merely another maneuver aimed at improving Italy's bargaining position in the world. Although the implications of this action are great, it is not in itself a serious step. Italy has since May of last year been far from Geneva. Nevertheless, the breach between the "isms" and democracy has been widented, and the necessity of cooperation between the great democracies is more urgent than ever before...
...Zelter's Die Gunst des Augenblicks Assisted by chorus of Radcliffe students...
...tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, the Sacred College of Cardinals may number 70 prelates. But until two years ago it was always short of this plenum by at least three or four members. Reason was that, should a Pope die suddenly, his successor might wish immediately to make cardinals of his best friends and working associates. Impatient of tradition, Pope Pius XI brought the Sacred College up to 69 two years ago. Continuing a policy of creating cardinals as deaths occurred in the College, the Holy Father last week let it be announced that he would award five...