Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this condition I cannot be Pope. It is better that I die...
Credited with having uttered the foregoing statements, and many more besides, during the five weeks he had lain abed, Pope Pius XI ended last week feeling fairly comfortable. Day after day the world Press had had the Holy Father about to die, but not until last week did the Vatican issue an official statement of his condition. In contrast to the vague "Vatican Voices" of anonymous prelates to whom newshawks attributed contradictory stories, the statement in precise terms detailed the Pope's ailments as: "a diffuse process of arteriosclerosis, with prevalent localization in a lowering of the heart...
...York's Metropolitan Opera traditionally gives debutant singers an occasion to be heard, boxholders an occasion to be photographed, critics an occasion to be lenient. Critics did not have to be lenient when, on Dec. 21, Manager Edward Johnson opened the season with a rattling good performance of Die Walkure. They were unable to be anything but enthusiastic when, two days later, Kirsten Flagstad sang Isolde with the miraculous freshness they had learned to expect from her. They were grateful to Manager Johnson for brushing up the ragged Met orchestra. When he began last fortnight to put on some...
...invited into Arizona by Arizona Superintendent of Health Dr. George Collingwood Truman, Phoenix's City Manager Evan S. Stallcup and Dean Edwin Selden Lane of Phoenix's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral-continued: ''A very considerable number of longtime permanent residents-real Arizonans-do have tuberculosis and die from it. ... The foregoing probably constitute the most important, and with one possible exception, but by no means all, public health problems in Arizona. That exception is the control of venereal diseases, or more specifically, syphilis and gonorrhea...
Driven south to Yalta by his lungs, Chekhov at last had to leave Russia altogether. With his wife to nurse him through his last illness, he went to Germany to die. On the evening of the night he died, Chekhov told his wife so many funny stories that she failed to hear the gong, missed her dinner. His body was brought back to Russia in a car that had been used to ship oysters in. Biographer Toumanova thinks that would have amused...