Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kentuckians convicted of every capital crime except criminal assault die in the electric chair. For rapists the penalty is hanging in the county where the crime was committed. Last year 1,500 sightseers packed Smithland to see William Thomas De Boe become the State's first white man hanged for rape (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week in Daviess County, which has not had a hanging since a private one in 1905, a Negro outdrew white William De Boe nearly 7-to-1 as a gallows performer...
This little pig went to market, At a price too fancy and high, This little pig went to heaven (Or where pigs go when they die); This little pig had taxes galore To drain and condition its sty, And this little pig dined in grandeur and state On eight different kinds...
...went through the whole nation; one felt that Germany was transformed into one single House of God, in which its intercessor stood before the throne of the Almighty to bear witness. . . . It seemed to us that this cry to heaven of a people for freedom and peace could not die away unheard. That was religion in its profoundest and most mystical sense. A nation then acknowledged God through its spokesman, and laid its destiny and its life with full confidence in His hand...
Prince (to Mrs. Jarrett's escort): Die junge Frau ist zu komisch...
...lawyer who had surrounded his house with barbed wire and sworn to die fighting any invasion of his liberty, became a prominent Fascist, visited Lussu before his arrest. The Deputy asked him glumly, "What have you done with the barbed wire?" In reply the lawyer handed Lussu an old edition of a 16th-Century book, made him read the title. It was: The Ultimate Profession of Faith of Simon Sinai, of Lucca, first Roman Catholic, then Calvinist, then Lutheran, then again Catholic, but always an Atheist...