Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large part with the peace settlements, but there is little prospect of their being revised without war. Under the circumstances one is driven back to the hope that humanity will live and learn, that, in the words of a recent Czech writer, the exaggerated idea of nationalism will gradually die out and give way to a new idea of co-operation and tolerance in the interests of the general welfare...
...right," said Roller Dotson. "He won't die. God will take care...
...superb acrobatics of the only living actor who is also a great athlete. He has his best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river the betrayed king...
...small-town brewer in East Prussia, Sudermann left school at the age of 14, was apprenticed to a chemist, turned up nevertheless at Immanuel Kant's university in Konigsberg. Sometime journalist in Berlin, he finally devoted himself exclusively to writing novels, and plays, provocative in their sociological significance - Die Ehre, Es lebe das Leben. He died last November, aged...
...have both delighted Frenchmen. They like Myron Timothy Herrick, and they thought Benjamin Franklin was délicieux. Therefore Parisians were a-tiptoe with anticipation, last week, as the state-owned Théâtre de L' Odéon (second only in kudos to the Comédie Francaise) started rehearsing Pauvre Richard...