Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether I should be happy over it. I stand in the midst of this deathly success as an accused. Believe me, Karcsi, this "fatal fame" hurts me. It hurls that so many people chose this song as their death march, making it world-famous with their act. People who die with a song must have beautiful souls, but I do not compose them for that purpose. I write songs to have people sing them and enjoy themselves while doing it. What prompted me to compose this song? It is hard to answer. . . . You know what struggles and disappointments I have...
...traceable to the fact that our governmental policies today are directed by men who have found that there is considerable financial gain for them in military preparedness. They have discovered that profits are greatest when blood is thickest. The next time we send our youths across the seas to die on foreign battlefields, let us call it a war to make the world safe for Dupontcracy...
...Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski is coming to Symphony Hall on Tuesday evening for a single concert. The program includes four Bach transcriptions by Stokowski himself and three excerpts from Wagner's "Die Gotterdammerung". The famous conductor has not been heard here for many years and is now commencing a nation-wide tour...
Take him away, he's as dead as they die...
...purposed dialog and action are sometimes funny. As a serious literary trick, Plato used the same device; so did Walter Savage Landor, British Novelist Keith Winter's latest book is based on this "consequential"' scheme. Suppose that D. H. Lawrence, surrounded by sycophants, went to Mallorca to die. Suppose Noel Coward, vacationing, became his neighbor. What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another South Wind but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful Cakes...