Word: died
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragic and surprising war; battles were fought under the smoky sky, fugitives hid in the soft stillness of the mountains. A succession of dark generals led their ebony soldiers to cruel and bewildering victories. Ugly Toussaint, who beat a Napoleonic army, was captured and sent far away to die. Clumsy Jean Jaques Dessalines made himself emperor of the black island and imported two ballet masters to teach him how to dance; before he had time to learn, a soldier murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time had done more than watch the sudden noisy game...
...Ready to Die...
Born in and ready to die for the United States of America. Publish if you dare...
...said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time." Despite a cold which confined him to his home in Washington, he spent his birthday working on the cases assigned him by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. "I should die if I quit work," he is said to say at intervals...
...with the theme of miser, mortgage, and out you go. There is no reason why it should be intoned, as if the stage were the rostrum in the U. S. Senate, with foolish, solemn wheezings. Only Edward Rigby, as the old butler who lies down at the last to die, locked in the shuttered house his masters have deserted, gives a really satisfactory performance in a production which many discriminating playgoers might rightly feel themselves compelled to attend...