Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hongkong. Up to the past week, British-governed Hongkong remained orderly; but, with the conclusion of the Kuo Min-tang-Yünnanese battle, agitators calling themselves the "Dare to Die Corps" (the name of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's irregulars, who successfully fomented the rebellion against the Son of Heaven) forced the Hongkong Chinese to strike. Absolute quiet was maintained...
...Vadunt? Is the present sporadic outburst of nationalism going to sweep all China into a ferment against the foreigners? Or is it going to die down to flare up again in the future? It is unlikely, if not impossible, for the Chinese to undertake any concerted action against the foreigners. This is because the Chinese are themselves too much divided. But it is almost a certainty that nationalism as a force will live to show its talons another day and there can be no doubt that some time the nationalists will...
According to Die Kreus Zeitung (most reactionary newspaper in Germany), the ex-Kaiser has founded an association of scientists to investigate the relationship between Greek and Oriental cultures...
Toman and die Waldfec, by Vitĕzslav Novak, embodies the old German folk story of Toman who, betrayed by his beloved, cannot resist the decoy of the sidelong smiling fairy whose kiss is death. He rides to his bride in a ballad for strings with a background of contra bass. Learning of her treachery, his laughter whirls in the brasses; exhaustion succeeds; the love cry faints into the sliding enchantments of Venus Yertocordia, to culminate at length in a triumphant orgy of brutal discords. "The finale," said one critic, "is like awakening from a nightmare...
There are times of stress when men must fight for the greater truth as they see it against another aspect of truth which in the insistent strife is less vital; times when duty demands not to ask the reason why, but to do and die! Then duty becomes heroic, but intellectually simply. In more tranquil periods the supreme duty is to think aright. It is then that opinions can, and should, be formed that will direct action when the stress comes. Let us not forget that in peace the conflicting opinions are formed that later produce wars; that in quiet...