Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole aspect of the case assumes a curious complexion when it is remembered that Gabriele recently said that he was about to engage in an exploit in which he " ultimately hoped to die...
...Annunzio is writing a new tragedy. It is to be in French, and Mile. Cecile Sorel, famous French actress, is to take the leading part. The play is to be produced at the Comédie Française...
Three hundred thousand men are now striking in the Ruhr district for " a dollar a day pay." The Germans are concerned over the strike, which they fear may lead to extensive damage in the mines. The French are confident that the Communist strike will soon die down, but this is far from certain. Meanwhile they decline to allow the Germans to deal with the Communists unless they promise to order every man in the Rhineland and the Ruhr back to work...
...true, as Hazlitt remarked, that no young man thinks he shall ever die, and it is natural enough that he should not worry very much about a dubious here-after; but still "young Harvard" is not altogether sworn to materialism, and is willing to admit that things spiritual ought to play a greater part in undergraduate life. If a memorial chapel would encourage that side of life, we should "speak up" for a memorial chapel. But, as we remarked in a sentence which the editor has wisely avoided quoting, we do not believe a new chapel would have any such...
This, the speaker said, was the spirit brought out on Memorial Day. "Causes live though generations die, for a country does not forget the valor and sacrifice of youth... On Memorial Day we bury petty things. Big things seem bigger and the small things smaller...