Word: died
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much is written in these hurried days of hurried thoughts concerning what are supposedly major traditions that those less spectacular members of the category live or die without any particular notice. There are probably few in the University who realize that the pleasant and often inspiring custom of a short organ recital at the close of Sunday chapel has lately been neglected. Yet those few are very sincere in their belief that something excellent and fine has been allowed to fade into oblivion...
...closed the service proper, used always to play the organ for a few minutes while those who cared for the custom and for the music remained in the peace and restfulness of noonday Appleton. Now they must chatter forth with the crowd or remain to hear the chattering die into nothingness. Perhaps these good people are too small a number to merit the grand chords which once were theirs. Yet that, only a person of little sensibility can defend. Even minor traditions must be flaunted occasionally in public to prevent their too easy death. And this custom of Sunday noon...
Parisian hooligans made discourteous signs, insulting sounds last week, as many a Teuton spread before him Die Neue Pariser Zeitung. Skeptics concluded that the dove of peace has hatched naught more promising than this: the first German newspaper to resume publication in Paris since...
...ambitious lover buys the very store in which Pappa Schmidt made $80,000, as the financial basis for their future marriage, limburger suddenly takes on the fragrance of attar of roses, pickles turn to rosettes, and Fernie, delighted, helps out in the store and back of it. Hoch die Delikatessen...
...this Rama Krishna was a strangely unromantic sort of person. He did not, as did Buddha, suddenly change his course of life from that of a prince to that of a begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die an eternal death upon the Cross, as did Christ. Instead he spent nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came...