Word: died
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sugar either. But when the rain cleared and I decided to go to the city hall where things were distributed, I was embarrassed beyond words. The Red Cross clerk insolently asked me "What do you want, chow?" I was so ashamed that I'd preferred to die." Now those people are sensitive, they have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give...
...rather driven to their seats. They will miss the short overture during which the orchestra will tune up, and the chorus make their last steps. They may also miss the introduction of the principals, who will gamble for the chance of kicking off. Artists rejoice to die, especially for a crowd. The feature this afternoon will be one of the best drilled male choruses in the country. It is the greatest assembly of stars ever perpetrated without a revival. This is so much the feature that the feminine gender has been totally neglected. Anyone who hopes for tiller of Hoffman...
Soon fiery Count Kuno von Westarp, leader of the second largest political party in the land, Die Deutschnationale Volkspartei introduced a still more rabid Monarchist, Col. von Struense, who proceeded to utter things which Count von Westarp, because of his political status, dare not say. Bristling and bellicose, Col. von Struense roared: "A turning point in German history has arrived-this evening marks the beginning of a fight which can end only in the coronation of a German Kaiser...
...pushing on their own gridirons, not venturing to play rivals. Some of the smaller colleges made use of a warm September afternoon for playing their first games with much cursing and lazy snorting but without the readiness, which will be produced by November temperatures, to commit murder or die for victory...
...contemplate what the effect of Dr. Hoick's words must be upon the few remaining Fletcherites. Unaccustomed to normal mastication, these fastidious trenchermen will swill too much and too abruptly and die off in short order. Not so John D. Rockefeller who, unmoved by fads and always conservative, will continue to chew his food soberly and slowly in a modified adaptation of Horace Fletcher's preposterous method...