Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employment, he gives to that agency and commission the power to determine the character of his home, the food he shall eat, the degree of education he will give his children and to determine his standard as a citizen. Such a commission may determine what price a man may die for, what he will get for a broken back or a fractured limb. I don't know, any man who works with his hands who will arbitrate such a question...
...then he was just in time, for the trunk was filled with his valuables. After tapping his hip pocket to gauge his courage, M. Duflos let himself into the house. Placed conspicuously on a table was a letter addressed to his wife, Mme. Hugette Duflos, once a Comédie Francaise beauty about whom half Paris raved and about whom the other half would have raved had it not been raving about other beauties. M. Duflos, visibly agitated, tore open the letter, read...
...Vienna, Soprano Maria Olszewska -she who, annoyed by Maria Jeritza's loud interruptions at a performance of Die Walküre, assailed the latter with a shot of saliva and was forthwith dismissed from the Vienna Staatsoper (TIME, May 25)-last week was reinstated. Offered part of her back pay, she accepted it but announced that, rather than use any of the management's "dirty" money for herself, she would give it to charity...
What if a wight named Tell should win a shooting match? Or one called Nero should give violin concerts? Or some Greek christened Achilles die of blood poisoning in the heel? Almost as fine a day for lovers of coincidence occurred one day last week, when The New York Times headlined: DR. JOHNSON TO EDIT DICTIONARY, referring to crisp, diffident Dr. Allen Johnson* of Yale University and the Dictionary of American Biography, the production of which the Times has underwritten (TIME, Dec. 22, THE PRESS...
...successful- so successful, indeed, that the tensity of feeling among the majority found sardonic expression in the words of Vice President Marshall, who at the stroke of noon, halted the last of the filibusters by declaring the Senate of the 65th Congress adjourned sine deo, instead of sine die...