Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild Men. One icy night in 1830, Parisians, passing the famed Comédie- Françise, were terrified to see "a band, wild and bizarre, bearded, hairy, dressed in all fashions save the current ones." The strange creatures were yelling: "We are the Wild Men of art!" "We are the brigands of thought...
...implied in the establishment of complete equality, of educational opportunity, of the career open to talent, of easy promotion in all walks of life from the ranks to positions of command? Victory depends on our offering the martyred nations of Europe a' cause for which to fight and die. Are we still too besotted by our terror of revolution to speak plainly the words that would convince the peoples and not merely the Governments that our struggle is theirs? Such questions are pressed with increasing insistence in the U.S., not by our critics but by our friends. We ought...
...Worst rainy nite. ... I was just lying in the mud, soaked and stinking, all night. Somehow stronger today. Foot healing, too. If I could get real food, think could hike around mt. Seems too bad to die when maybe could struggle to a village...
...Most vivid, terrible scene I ever witnessed. Such peaks! Dug through worst jungle yet. . . . If I don't die tonite, I may push on along shore a way tomorrow-I don't know...
Mightily pleased was bald, businesslike Robert H. Hinckley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, who had kindled this fire. Cried Hinckley: "History has faced us with the plain alternative: Fly-or die! The entire nation must become air-conditioned. . . . We shall be thoroughly air-conditioned when we are not startled by the proposal that school children visit the Arctic by transport plane to study Eskimos in their native habitat...