Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home in Gloucester, Mass, early one morning last week, after long illness, died A. Piatt Andrew, onetime (1910-12) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, since 1921 a U. S. Representative. He was the tenth Representative, the 14th member of the 74th Congress to die. When the House met at noon that day, it would have been customary to adjourn at once in tribute to the dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution...
...four to attend the funeral, banged his gavel for adjournment, went home to his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Nine hours later the Grim Reaper paid another call, and lanky, bushy-browed, 66-year-old Joe Byrns lay dead of a cerebral hemorrhage, first Speaker in history to die while Congress was in session...
...Starry Throne Handel 2. Songs Miguel Sereque, Jr. The Victor Sanderson The Abbot of Derry Weaver 3. The Pierian Sodality of 1808 Harvard University Orchestra Malcom H. Holmes. Conducter Valse Triste Sibelius Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" De Falla 4. Harvard Glee Club Praestat Hoc Nobles Chadwick O Die Frauen Brahms Der Gang Zum Liebchen Brahms Choruses from Patience Sullivan Fair Harvard The audience is expected to join in as usual with the singing of Fair Harvard...
...Ford, dumbly helped her as best I could. As she met her fate upon that parched and mournful road-blanched, haggard, disheveled and robbed of all beauty, biting her hands and gasping in torment, but brave as she moaned and whispered a pitiful challenge: "I won't die! I won't die! Oh, let me have my baby!"-all strength within me fled and I wept from helplessness and pity. Chilled by the memory of that scene of dust and anguish and a woman's tears, I find it hard to believe that a woman, to achieve...
Before he had gone far in what his office called the "graveyard story," Investigator Fritchey knew he had some-thing big. He found that squads of oily, smooth-tongued salesmen had combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground. Since everyone must die, the salesmen argued, best possible investment would be in the wholesale blocks of new cemetery plots which they were ready to furnish for cash, savings bankbooks or deposits on call at building & loan societies. Catch was that enough speculative cemeteries to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come had already been...