Word: died
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mortality. Few grownups die from erysipelas alone. But the mortality of children is very great. Among infants under one year of age 75% to 90% attacked die. Among children under five years 15% to 20% die. Adult mortality...
...Senate the Judiciary Committee referred five wet bills and one resolution (to repeal the 18th Amendment) to a subcommittee (which is all dry except for one member, Reed of Missouri). The bills are expected to die...
...Significance. Observers noted with interest that Mr. de Valera was defeated while opposing the extreme die-hards of his party. He was advocating that "when the Oath of Fealty to the King [required of all Irish M. P.'s] shall be abolished, then Sinn Feiners should cease to abstain from the Dail [Parliament], enter it and work toward the establishment of a Republic...
...Die-hards Mary MacSwiney and Father O'Flanagan were successful in purging "We Ourselves" from any such "conciliatory taint...
...Lampoon, indeed, has too long served the American public with clean humor and clean advertising with all those fundamental forces in salient satire and irresistible irony to die uncherished and unwept. From coast to coast those who have followed Lample will mourn their departed leader. Life itself will be without a parent; Mother Advocate without a son. The entire nation will mourn this departed jester royal-this wanton wit and boisterous bard...