Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacco was too weak and too gloomy to say anything. He continued his hunger strike which had then reached its 24th day. Mr. Vanzetti said: "Well, I'm damned glad. I'd like to see my sister before I die." (His sister sailed last week for the U. S. on the Aquitania from Cherbourg.) Soon Mr. Vanzetti began to swallow liquids and, later, salads. Mr. Madeiros who had been eating heavily sat in a stupor...
...their cells in the death house of the Massachusetts State Prison, Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti heard last week that they were to die. Mrs. Sacco and two advisers brought the news. For an hour and a half, they talked together, while prison guards listened and looked. Mr. Sacco (then on the 19th day of a hunger strike) mumbled over and over: "I told you so, I told you so," as if in rhythm with his throbbing, withered arteries. Said Mr. Vanzetti: "I don't believe...
...found time to write a letter to friends. Mr. Vanzetti's: "Governor Alvan T. Fuller is a murderer. . . . He shakes hands with me like a brother, makes me believe he was honest-intentioned.... Now, ignoring and denying all proofs of our innocence, he insults us and murders us. ... We die for anarchy. Long life to anarchy." Mr. Sacco's: ". . . . We are not surprised by this news, because we know the capitalist class is hard, without any mercy to the good soldiers of the revolution. . . . We have always known that Governor Fuller, Thayer and Katzmann are the murderers. With warm fraternal...
...Pork is a good food. One of the best. Religion may forbid it, but that idea will die with the older generation. While pork has been avoided with horror for generations as 'unclean,' it is now being eaten by our younger generation...
...rolled down the slope. Like any good hunter in any good story, the ranger hurried to the spot. There he found, not one dead elephant, but four dead elephants. Explanation: the shot elephant had killed two others on its downhill roll. The fourth had chosen that spot to die of bullets, evidently a month before...