Word: died
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans are more popular in France than the Americans; that the acclaim which greeted our plunge into the War has turned to envy, bitterness and open revolt at what they call their bond-slavery to our Treasury. Everywhere in Europe the tide of hatred against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like to see Germany clean up France' - adding, 'I would like to meet Jusserand and tell him that to his face.' . . . Only a man with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell...
...people like ourselves. Come, let us understand." They wanted to stand up and cheer at the intermission after the third movement, but he bade them wait, with a gesture, until the tender parable of mortality should be rounded with the exalted parable of resurrection-"Blessed - are the dead which die in the Lord." They waited, meditated, applauded thoughtfully, gave Conductor Furtwangler a wreath and went home full of peace instead of excitement. Perhaps they would see him again in a year; perhaps he would be called somewhere else...
...clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life; minions of the Holy See threw his ashes and the sod beneath his feet into the Rhine...
Well might these admiring unorthodox critics be greeted with a smile from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose deaf ears rang with the Ninth Symphony for 25 years before he entrusted it to the world, who recreated the kettledrum rhythm of the Agnus Die so often that he wore holes in thick paper, who "stood on ground long ago trod by Aristotle who held that the highest art should appeal to the intellect through its perfection in form...
...preacher's cheek. Most likely it was the poison with which he defied God and nature, the boll-weevil killer that none would help him spray in the fields. He comes back from the hospital only the shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry, his strongest boy, whose skull was hard enough...