Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stars Remain Actor Webb, with infinite boredom, takes part in a great deal of vague talk about a hypothetical New York State political situation, in which the forces of Cynthia Hope's (Helen Gahagan's) grandfather, a die-hard Republican out to smash a pack of radical cubs at the polls, are lined up against the faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more...
...might logically have left his money to Britain's venerable Royal Society. However, according to the great U. S. naturalist, Louis Agassiz, his feelings were hurt when the Royal Society failed to publish some papers which he submitted. Therefore, his will directed that if his nephew should die childless, his fortune (much of which came to him from a halfbrother) should go "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...
...baby under the extraordinary circumstances she described and 2) would scarcely have known what she was doing for 18 hours afterward. A murder trial jury of twelve men, however, could not quite believe the whole of Elizabeth's tale. If she had not intended to have her child die, why had she not prepared a layette of some sort? Largely for that neglect the jury found Elizabeth Smith guilty of manslaughter, liable to 15 years imprisonment...
...Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper...
...distinguished negro tenor, Roland Hayes, is to give a recital in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon. His program is interesting and contains excerpts from "Die Meistersinger," including the Prize Song...