Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They are," returned the gentleman. . . . "But many can't go there; and many would rather die...
...they'd rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. Besides excuse me--I didn't know that...
Shortly preceding and long following July 1, 1918 came the Prohibition joke--a noxious thing which everyone hoped would shortly die a natural death. But it was imbued with remarkable staying powers and nearly six years after its birth, this old joke, this same old discussion, is still going strong. People try to shut their ears against its monotonous reiteration but such action will do no good. The reason for its staying powers is that like Banquo's ghost the question will not down. The Prohibition question, if not liver than ever, is certainly as live as when the Eighteenth...
...French prison during a great part of the war. His protest took the shape of a highly naturalistic narrative called The Enormous Room. In the present volume we have a collection of his poetry. His work is always distinguished by a rigid adherence to freedom. He would rather die than be usual. The result is a riot of noise and color, of poems sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift of the inevitable word, he at least can always find the unexpected one. Cummings...
...itinerant Wagnerian Opera Com- pany went to Manhattan and encountered a mixed reception. It opened there with Die Meistersinger. That was unfortunate. It had to meet the severest and most direct competition in the superb Meistersinger which Mr. Bodanzky conducted at the Metropolitan, one of the very finest performances of this or any other season. The Wagnerian company production of the opera last season rode advantageously on the happy welcome which greeted the first performance of the work in New York for a long time. But now, with the appetite a little sated, the handicaps of a traveling...