Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admiration in most readers of the daily prints. It is hard to see just who will profit by the experiment. If the doctors escape the disease after nine days confinement in a penthouse, it will prove that some persons are less susceptible to contagion than others. If they die of the plague, as seems quite likely, it will prove nothing. In neither case, will there be any great advancement of medical science. The contemplated experiment is both foolhardy and uncalled...
...quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn volley, lasted for 13 minutes. The shuffling ones stared at one another in silent amaze. ''Cheest!" they said...
General Chang did not believe in looting; he became angry, wrote orders in enigmatic Chinese. Every man that was found with loot or confessed to looting was condemned to die...
...Calles hastened to quiet the British. Believing that a conciliatory attitude might do much to improve Anglo-Mexican relations, severely strained by the murder, he ordered the court at Puebla to hurry disposition of the prisoners. It was believed that appeal would be refused, that they were soon to die...
...satisfactory company. Even in the raspingly British second act of the silly ass and arch girl sort, the players were usually above the manuscript. On the star's performance adjectives were tossed in an enthusiastic heap. He was furnished with opportunity to love, hate, eat, drink and die. These elemental attributes he interpreted with a gorgeous gusto, a decisive individuality which made the part one of Mr. Arliss's best since the days he did Disraeli...