Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when all France fétes the memory of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, an old woman of Saint Brieuc in Brittany cried : "I want to die like Jeanne d'Arc. France is ruined. I will save her!" She went to the carpenter, begged him to build her a pyre, but he refused. She went home, constructed her a pyre, drenched herself in paraffin, lay down, lit a match, was burned to death...
...London, was sold a famed letter from the quill of Napoleon, addressed to Admiral Lord Keith on July 31, 1815 : "I am in no way a prisoner of war; I am the guest of England. I prefer to die rather than to go to St. Helena or be imprisoned in a fortress. I wish to live in the English country, under British law and protected...
Presbyterian Assembly. Himself an ex-Moderator (1913-14), he found the delegates tremendously excited about the election of a Moderator- Chair man and chief executive of the Church. Among the candidates was Clarence Edward Macartney, 44, of Philadelphia, a bitter-ender, a die hard, a Fundamentalist. Dr. Stone was informed that Presbyterian politicians had packed the Assembly with enough votes to elect Macartney. He was told that the final balance of power had been secured when 18 Negroes were secretly pledged to vote for Macartney. Dr. Stone refused to believe a word of this. Then on the eve of election...
...Ruhr district, miners struck for a shorter day and more pay. Other strikes were reported from Saxony and Silesia. Berlin Bolsheviks urged the metal workers and railwaymen to join their Red brethren. Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), Berlin Communist journal, proclaimed a new wave of struggle against the hated capitalist system...
...goats that had previously been deprived of their own. The male characteristics that they had lost when their own glands were removed returned. ... In 1918 I made my first experiments on senile animals. I took a ram, ten or twelve years of age, that the veterinarian told me might die at any time. He was so weak that his legs trembled when he stood, and he was unable to retain his urine. I grafted upon his glands those of a buck six months of age. In about two months there came a change in his attitude. His apathy...