Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started as protective trade organizations. They became, by degrees, political bodies?compact, powerful, antagonistic. Thus was the word perverted. Now, when that word appears in print, it clangs like a terrible bronze bell summoning unseen hordes to war, sounding the knell of many pathetic, dingy little men who will die by violence, in secret places...
...been roughly handled of late. He was born in the days before the war?more than 30 years ago? when his father was no one in particular. He lived to see his father become the most powerful figure in Germany. He lived to see his father die less than a year and a half ago. (TIME Apr. 21, 1924). Today Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, eldest son of Hugo, looks out from under his father's black brows, seeing the future grim and desolate, and his face blanches...
...late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone how to make him listen to reason. Do not read this book tonight if you must catch an early train in the morning. It makes...
...have just returned from a week-end visit . . . where I heard a piano demonstrated whose tones grow or die as the performer chooses. I heard the volume in creased after the tone had been struck ... all this without in any degree altering the characteristics or the piano tone...
...were as happy as a man and woman could be in our Garden of Eden until the serpent came. Who was the serpent? I can see the question shaping in your mind, but I can't answer it. That's my secret and it will die with me. Suffice it for the world that the point was reached where my husband was brought to the belief that he had to choose between his partner and his future. He chose...